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`With its subtly deployed late-60s detail, Free Country is a treat for fans of traditional Len Deighton-style spy thrillers' --Guardian
'A cleverly twisted tale of intrigue and deception, this is a masterly excursion back to the bad old days of the Cold War' --The Times
'An homage to the morally ambiguous Sixties thrillers of Le Carré and Deighton . . . nuanced to the hilt' --Telegraph
'A cleverly twisted tale of intrigue and deception, this is a masterly excursion back to the bad old days of the Cold War' --The Times
'An homage to the morally ambiguous Sixties thrillers of Le Carré and Deighton . . . nuanced to the hilt' --Telegraph
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It is May 1969, and MI6 double agent Paul Dark stands alongside mourners at the funeral of Sir Colin Templeton; the former head of the organisation, the man he knew simply as 'Chief' -- and the man he killed in cold blood. Dark has got away with it, evading the attentions of both his fellow British spies and the KGB operatives to whom he long ago pledged loyalty. But that precarious security is about to be shattered, launching Dark back into the heart of an international conspiracy and making him a target for both exposure and assassination. Desperate to escape his predicament, Dark gambles everything on one last throw of the dice, exposing his Soviet handler to the British. But before long, he finds he has no choice but to go on the run again, taking him to the labyrinthine backstreets of Rome. The race is on to stop a deadly plot that dates back to the early years of the Cold War. The second part of the Paul Dark trilogy, and sequel to the critically acclaimed Free Agent, Free Country is another sweat-soaked Sixties-set spy thriller in the tradition of Len Deighton and Frederick Forsyth.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Song of Treason didn't disappoint after reading Free Agent. Most dislike Paul Dark but I for one like the chap. It's not every day we get to follow a mixed up chap like Paul Dark. Great Fun, smashing location of Rome with plenty of twists. More retro spy novels please Jeremy Duns.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Despite the (selective?) favourable quotes from the Guardian and the Telegraph, this book is most definitely not in the same league as Len Deighton or Le Carre.
For starters, much of the narrative comes straight from the mind of the main protagonist, Paul Dark - in effect we're told the story instead of finding out through the action or characters.
The dialogue is pedestrian - for example when Dark hot-wires a jeep, his female companion comments 'That's a clever trick'; 'It can come in useful', Dark replies. Dull, clunky.
And the plot may be action-packed but it's sub-James Bond stuff, with the heroes using an unlikely ploy to escape from their cell ('somehow I hit home..', 'against all the odds it had worked'), the subsequent helicopter episode ('this was it, this was the end...'), and then the potential drowning scenario ('it looked like some kind of passage..'). It's not quite 'with one bound I was free', but it's not far off it.
I gave up with a hundred pages left, I simply had no interest left!
For starters, much of the narrative comes straight from the mind of the main protagonist, Paul Dark - in effect we're told the story instead of finding out through the action or characters.
The dialogue is pedestrian - for example when Dark hot-wires a jeep, his female companion comments 'That's a clever trick'; 'It can come in useful', Dark replies. Dull, clunky.
And the plot may be action-packed but it's sub-James Bond stuff, with the heroes using an unlikely ploy to escape from their cell ('somehow I hit home..', 'against all the odds it had worked'), the subsequent helicopter episode ('this was it, this was the end...'), and then the potential drowning scenario ('it looked like some kind of passage..'). It's not quite 'with one bound I was free', but it's not far off it.
I gave up with a hundred pages left, I simply had no interest left!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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After dishing out a one-star pasting to "James Steel's" risible Warlord yesterday, I picked up this volume in anticipation of something a lot better, intrigued by the cover references to Deighton and Le Carre. OMG (as the young ones say now) it was EVEN WORSE. To compare this unmitigated dross to the brilliance of Le Carre in the Smiley trilogy and A Perfect Spy, for example, borders on the libellous. The book opens with the funeral of the Head of the Secret Service, or someone like that, (whom the treacherous narrator and No 2 in the Secret Service has killed, or something) and, hey presto, right there in the middle of St Paul's Cathedral, No 3 in the Secret Service (I didn't care by then) is assassinated by an Italian dressed as a priest, who then abseils down the outside of the building to escape. I can barely believe I've typed these words. I can barely believe that this humungous heap of horse manure has been published and that I picked it up to read it. Someone tell me it's a joke, please; that Beadle's still about and pulling our legs. Weep for the beloved novel if this is what it's come to.
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I enjoyed the first of the trilogy, Jeremy's first novel I believe, but noticed a leap forward in content and style with this one. I look forward to his third novel
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