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'Thrilling sizzler... brimful of insider knowledge, this debut novel heads into the world of corrupt Russian business dealings... [an] elegant, tense thriller' --Grazia
'A well-paced, plausible thriller that brings a wealth of experience of corrupt modern business and flits between the City of London, the Cayman Islands, Moscow and Berlin faster than a liquidity crisis' --The Times
'... It certainly provides a dynamic setting for An Agent of Deceit, a first novel by Chris Morgan Jones... Morgan Jones builds the tale nicely as he moves the action from Russia to the south of France, London and on to a climax in Berlin... Morgan Jones weaves an engaging narrative that, through Lock particularly, confronts the dilemma of the west's engagement with dubious characters and companies - and not just those from the former Soviet Union. It is an issue with which many institutions have been grappling lately in places such as Libya... An Agent of Deceit is a worthy entry to the long line of spy yarns, and a reminder of how little we still know of wealth and power in Russia, for all the public visibility of the 21st-century oligarchs' --Financial Times
'Chris Morgan Jones's debut arrives with a weight of expectations on its shoulders. But it's clear right from the chilling, detached opening, in which a journalist is indifferently, casually murdered for asking the wrong questions in Kazakhstan, that these are going to be met . . . Like the icy eastern winter that seeps through the pages of his novel, Morgan Jones's prose is clean and cold, crisp and ominous . . . this is a world Morgan Jones knows, and it shows. In its intelligence, its crispness, its refusal to recognise anything other than shades of grey, there are undoubtedly resonances of Le Carré here. But An Agent of Deceit is too good to need the publishing shorthand for "classy thriller": this is a debut that definitely stands on its own merits' --Observer
`"new Le Carrés" are 10 a penny, but Morgan Jones has a better claim to the title than most, having worked for 11 years at the world's largest business intelligence agency. On one level this intelligent, sophisticated spy thriller is about money laundering. But it's also about the willed innocence that makes such activities possible - the difference between not knowing and choosing not to know... dapper prose and stately pacing... Genuinely scary' --Guardian
'If your beach readings lean towards thrills rather than romance, this is a good one to start with. A debut novel that delves into the shadowy world of oligarchs, private investigators and dodgy dealings.' --The Independent
'A well-paced, plausible thriller that brings a wealth of experience of corrupt modern business and flits between the City of London, the Cayman Islands, Moscow and Berlin faster than a liquidity crisis' --The Times
'... It certainly provides a dynamic setting for An Agent of Deceit, a first novel by Chris Morgan Jones... Morgan Jones builds the tale nicely as he moves the action from Russia to the south of France, London and on to a climax in Berlin... Morgan Jones weaves an engaging narrative that, through Lock particularly, confronts the dilemma of the west's engagement with dubious characters and companies - and not just those from the former Soviet Union. It is an issue with which many institutions have been grappling lately in places such as Libya... An Agent of Deceit is a worthy entry to the long line of spy yarns, and a reminder of how little we still know of wealth and power in Russia, for all the public visibility of the 21st-century oligarchs' --Financial Times
'Chris Morgan Jones's debut arrives with a weight of expectations on its shoulders. But it's clear right from the chilling, detached opening, in which a journalist is indifferently, casually murdered for asking the wrong questions in Kazakhstan, that these are going to be met . . . Like the icy eastern winter that seeps through the pages of his novel, Morgan Jones's prose is clean and cold, crisp and ominous . . . this is a world Morgan Jones knows, and it shows. In its intelligence, its crispness, its refusal to recognise anything other than shades of grey, there are undoubtedly resonances of Le Carré here. But An Agent of Deceit is too good to need the publishing shorthand for "classy thriller": this is a debut that definitely stands on its own merits' --Observer
`"new Le Carrés" are 10 a penny, but Morgan Jones has a better claim to the title than most, having worked for 11 years at the world's largest business intelligence agency. On one level this intelligent, sophisticated spy thriller is about money laundering. But it's also about the willed innocence that makes such activities possible - the difference between not knowing and choosing not to know... dapper prose and stately pacing... Genuinely scary' --Guardian
'If your beach readings lean towards thrills rather than romance, this is a good one to start with. A debut novel that delves into the shadowy world of oligarchs, private investigators and dodgy dealings.' --The Independent
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A tycoon with a deadly secret. A spy dying to find it.
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The world of the Russian oligarchs is prime thriller material - mysterious, sinister and fabulously wealthy and the novelist can tap into the rich literary inheritance of the cold-war years. Chris Morgan Jones does justice to his material: his first novel is a convincingly written page-turner. If he doesn't quite match the resonance of the best Le Carre, who does ? He balances authentic-sounding financial shenanigans with life-threatening assaults in at least half-a-dozen countries and Ben Webster (his only-slightly-less-than-heroic hero) is a character who could run and run.
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It would be so easy to say a welcome to the New John Le Carre. However, John le Carre is of course outdated in the world of 2011. He has a successor in Mr Jones and his depth of style goes on. I loved this book. You cannot skim through pages in this one, every word on every page counts towards this complex political thriller with Oligarchs, money that is so large to comprehend combined with strained family issues, forgotten deeds and the world Russian heartlands and its outer neighbours. The power of energy controlled by so few in this modern world screams from the pages as we feel sorry for both hero and protagonist and fear those who silently pull their strings.
This book, from brand new novelist Chris Morgan Jones, is fiery, passionate, complicated and very up-to-date. It has its roots and is I suspect entrehced from informatin gained over 11 years of the author's own past, (his employment in one of the world's largest intelligence units). It is a world of unsurety, of knowing who you can or cannot trust. One wrong move and you could leave the earth for ever.
Great wealth is for the taking, or is it?. Only the main players can ever win.Crime does pay at this level. This book is for those who enjoy very well wrtten, political thrillers. I have never enjoyed a book like this until I read my first Robert Ludlum in the 1960s.
Do give this one a go, it is not often that new authors are given the chance to suceed but this one will go all the way. AND.......we want more Mr C M Jones. Take heed...you have created a monster that needs feeding.
An Agent of Deceit
This book, from brand new novelist Chris Morgan Jones, is fiery, passionate, complicated and very up-to-date. It has its roots and is I suspect entrehced from informatin gained over 11 years of the author's own past, (his employment in one of the world's largest intelligence units). It is a world of unsurety, of knowing who you can or cannot trust. One wrong move and you could leave the earth for ever.
Great wealth is for the taking, or is it?. Only the main players can ever win.Crime does pay at this level. This book is for those who enjoy very well wrtten, political thrillers. I have never enjoyed a book like this until I read my first Robert Ludlum in the 1960s.
Do give this one a go, it is not often that new authors are given the chance to suceed but this one will go all the way. AND.......we want more Mr C M Jones. Take heed...you have created a monster that needs feeding.
An Agent of Deceit
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This first novel by Chris Morgan Jones about the murky world of Russian energy sets a new bench mark in intelligent writing about political-corporate corruption. The impenetrable layers of cover-up, the mercurial characters of the leading combatants, the fear that grips those who have wittingly or unwittingly been sucked into the lethal contest to reveal and avoid revelation - all are brought together in impressively authentic style. This book is a page turner from start to finish.
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