The long room
By: Francesca Kay
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Clipper -- LP3852
Publisher: WF Howes Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781510043732
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction; Intelligence officers; Relations entre hommes et femmes; Romans, nouvelles; Officiers de renseignements
Description: What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own? When Stephen Donaldson joins the Institute, he anticipates excitement, romance and new status. Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient communists and ineffectual revolutionaries, until the day he is assigned a new case: the ultra-secret PHOENIX. Is PHOENIX really working for a foreign power? Stephen hardly cares; it is the voice of the target's wife that mesmerises him.
Notes: Standard print edition originally published: London: Faber & Faber.