- Paperback
- Publisher: Coronet Books (26 Oct 2003)
- ISBN-10: 0340834323
- ISBN-13: 978-0340834329
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,066,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"1 'A classic spy novel, one of the best Egleton has written, using two of his strongest skills: authentic detail and relentless probing to reveal treachery buried deep in the past.' Michael Hartland, Daily Telegraph (A Lethal Involvement) 2 'As intense and chilling as le Carre, Egleton is one of today's best thriller writers' Booklist (A Killing in Moscow) 3 'Arcane plot twists, exotic settings and bursts of violence, with a dollop of civilized sex...great.' New York Times (Blood Money)
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Trying to live as a civilian with his wife and young children in hiding, Peter Ashton finds himself once again thrown into the front line when his old home is blown up. Threatened by his past, Ashton determines that the safest protection for his family is himself. Meanwhile, an assassination in Russia leaves an old friend running from the mafiozniki. With a price on her head and no-where to go she is desperate for Ashton's help. With no help from SIS and all his contacts denying they've ever heard of him, Ashton is only one step ahead of the IRA terrorists who are out to retire him for good.
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Format:Hardcover
The good thriller with a small mistakes spreadging through the text like worms just about any time author gets to rescribe something related to Russia/Soviet Union. Which is about a quarter of the book.
Being the curious and attentive native of the country, I cannot stand the long description of "house arrest" (the unexistent pinishment in this country), the repeated address of "124 Gorky Street four hundred yards from Marx Prospect" (there are just a few streets with more than 100 house numbers in the whole city, and the place described is really in the first dozen), the same story about "Petrovski Avenue 236" (in addition to numbering, it is and always was Boulevard rather than Avenue), with another non-existent number 237 being right across the street, $400 for the tire of the Shkoda car (more like $100 at the time described), Tven instead of Tver as a geographical name, and the same fate for Yaroslavi instead of Yaroslavl. What you will think of the book where Baltimore is spelled Baltimot or Leeds as Leens?
It is like a small nails slightly above the surface which stop your otherwise smooth movement toward the end of the book...
Being the curious and attentive native of the country, I cannot stand the long description of "house arrest" (the unexistent pinishment in this country), the repeated address of "124 Gorky Street four hundred yards from Marx Prospect" (there are just a few streets with more than 100 house numbers in the whole city, and the place described is really in the first dozen), the same story about "Petrovski Avenue 236" (in addition to numbering, it is and always was Boulevard rather than Avenue), with another non-existent number 237 being right across the street, $400 for the tire of the Shkoda car (more like $100 at the time described), Tven instead of Tver as a geographical name, and the same fate for Yaroslavi instead of Yaroslavl. What you will think of the book where Baltimore is spelled Baltimot or Leeds as Leens?
It is like a small nails slightly above the surface which stop your otherwise smooth movement toward the end of the book...
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
This was a BRUTAL (partial) read
31 Oct 2002
Format:Audio Cassette
I couldn't seem to get into this book.........too stodgy or something...........gave up after 40 pages.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This Novel Makes Reading WORK Rather Than Pleasure
30 May 2002
Format:Hardcover
If you like John LeCarre, you'll love this. The British seem to turn out these spy novels with too many characters to keep track of, all muddled up in incomprehensible comings, goings, and way too much gawd-awful talk. I read for pleasure and it is just too much work to try and understand what the hell is going on, who said what and why, etc. These Brit spy novels also have the unhappy habit of no-emphasis on conversations and events, thus a murder equates with buttering a piece of bread as far as the text is concerned. Not for me, thank you.
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