Paris Spring

Zusatztext Naughtie writes with a cool authority reminiscent of that now neglected master of the novel of espionage, William Haggard' Scotsman . Informationen zum Autor James Naughtie! who presented Today on BBC Radio 4 for twenty-one years! is a special correspondent for BBC News. He has written books on politics and music and published his first novel! The Madness of July! in 2014. He lives in Edinburgh and London. Klappentext Paris! April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution! but for Will Flemyng - secret servant at the British embassy - the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and he now faces the spy's oldest fear: exposure. Freddy Craven is the hero and mentor Flemyng would trust with his life! but when he is tempted into a dark! Cold War labyrinth! he chooses the dangerous path and plays his game alone. Then a bizarre murder reveals a web of secrets! and his loyalty to family and friends is tested as never before. Zusammenfassung Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng secret servant at the British embassy the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and he now faces the spy's oldest fear: exposure. Freddy Craven is the hero and mentor Flemyng would trust with his life, but when he is tempted into a dark, Cold War labyrinth, he chooses the dangerous path and plays his game alone. Then a bizarre murder reveals a web of secrets, and his loyalty to family and friends is tested as never before. As the streets of Paris become a smoke-filled battleground, Flemyng, like his friends and enemies, discovers that where secrets are at stake, lives are too.

Autorentext
James Naughtie , who presented Today on BBC Radio 4 for twenty-one years, is a special correspondent for BBC News. He has written books on politics and music and published his first novel, The Madness of July , in 2014. He lives in Edinburgh and London.

Klappentext

Paris, April 1968.
The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng - secret servant at the British embassy - the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and he now faces the spy's oldest fear: exposure.

Freddy Craven is the hero and mentor Flemyng would trust with his life, but when he is tempted into a dark, Cold War labyrinth, he chooses the dangerous path and plays his game alone.

Then a bizarre murder reveals a web of secrets, and his loyalty to family and friends is tested as never before.

Zusammenfassung
Paris in 1968. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will Flemyng finds himself in the thick of the action, a young spy whose first adventures behind the Iron Curtain have already given him a secret glamour. But now he gets news that threatens the closest and most complicated relationship in his life, with his younger brother.