Review: A true spy thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
If you're like me and enjoy escaping from every day problems with good fiction, you'll thoroughly enjoy this novel. It takes place in a short time span during the height of the Cold War in 1962. The unlikely hero is a Canadian born musician/singer who is courted and thereafter snarled by British Intelligence to spy on the Soviets. The discovery that David Baird learns, after barely escaping from imminent death at the hands of the Soviets, could very well change the course of the balance of power in the world.The novel is well paced, the romance credible and necessary to the plot, and the characters like Baird, House, and the mysterious Soviet Marijke are very likeable and interesting. This is a wonderful read and there is no opaque spy language like that found in John le Carre's works that I find annoying. My sole criticism is that 5% could have been cut out; namely the excessive scientific discussion of the vertical plane and its dynamics. I highly recommend this one.