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Book SynopsisFrom acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing - and always dangerous - USSR in the mid-1980s.Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the...
Trade ReviewAn author in control of both his story and its arena. Vidich's style is sparse but atmospheric. Carefully deployed tradecraft and technical knowledge only add to the air of verisimilitude * Financial Times *
In short, this is one of the year's premier spy novels, a close study of individual lives set against global turmoil, a heady blend of spy games and their very human consequences * Crime Reads (Best Books of the Year So Far) *
Vidich's visualisation of time and place is masterly * Times *
Paul Vidich delivers a spy yarn that revels in the old certainties * Irish Times *
Vidich carries the wintry mood of Soviet menace and danger powerfully, and his plot twists are tight and all too believable... A fast-moving and emotionally powerful ride into the darkness of both spying and the battered soul * New York Journal of Books *
