Our Game
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0345400003
ISBN 13
9780345400000
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
352
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Abstract
With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run, searching for his brilliant protégé, desperately eluding his former colleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into the lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save whatever of his life he has left....
"IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him.
"IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against him.
Description
Ancien agent secret, Tim Cranner pense, à quarante-huit ans, pouvoir jouir d'une retraite anticipée et de la présence d'Emma, son énigmatique compagne, dans son manoir du Somerset. Même si l'un de ses voisins se trouve être Larry Pettifer, un homme qui a servi d'agent double à Tim pendant vingt ans. Mais nul ne peut échapper à son passé. Soudain Larry et Emma disparaissent. Ensemble ? Larry a-t-il réussi à convaincre Emma de l'aider à combattre pour une de ses nombreuses causes perdues ? Emma est-elle en danger ? Sans réfléchir, Tim se lance à leur recherche, mais dans le monde nébuleux de l'espionnage, chasseur et gibier ne sont jamais ceux qu'on croit, et l'ex-Union soviétique continue d'attirer vers elle ses anciens adversaires.
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