num_pages: 274
description: The Envoy Edward Wilson's second novel will prove familiar territory for fans of A River in May. The setting is 1950s London at the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier is ostensibly a senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square but is also CIA Chief of Station. This job and its secrets prove deadly and Kit faces a crisis of the soul as the threat of the H-bomb looms.
language: English
title: The Envoy
publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd