The seeds of treason
(2017)

Fiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States]: Dover Publications, 2017
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9780486824895 (electronic bk.) MWT11950442, 0486824896 (electronic bk.) 11950442
LANGUAGE
English
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A gripping tale of love and treachery, this novel by a former British intelligence officer explores the reasons why men and women betray their countries and each other. The cast includes Jan Massey, Head of British Intelligence in Berlin and a passionate anti-Communist who falls in love with the wife of a KGB officer; Arthur Johnson, a lowly signalman in the Berlin office who dreams of money and power; civil servant Eric Mayhew, stung by an unjust act of authority; and mathematician Jimbo Vick, lured into betrayal by a seductive Soviet agent. Although they operate under different motivations and circumstances, their roles in the intelligence community will connect them as they frantically attempt to evade a day of reckoning. "No one twitches the strings more expertly than Allbeury," noted The Observer, and indeed, Ted Allbeury's experience as a Cold War-era spy adds a thrilling realism to this story of the egotism, passion, and desperation that underlie acts of treason

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