description: A middle-aged accountant driving to his lakeside cottage gives a lift to a forelorn teenager. She is pregnant, tells conflicting stories of her predicament, and asks to spend the night. He agrees...with consequences! "Almost completely unlike anything else Monsarrat has ever written, here he shows complete mastery of Greek tragedy by successfully casting it into modern-day form and life." (Best Sellers) Smith and Jones, embassy officials, are sent to a frozen, hostile capital. Frustrated and unstable, the two defect to the alien land. Why they go and what happens to them is revealed in Monsarrat's spare, swift-moving narrative about individualism versus patriotism, national and personal security.
title: Something To Hide/Smith And Jones
titlecomplete: Something To Hide/Smith And Jones
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.