Tag: spy
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Exposure, by Helen Dunmore
Hardback, Hutchinson, £16.99, out now An engaging thriller with a very human heart, this cold war spy story is fresh and believable. Giles, a long time Soviet mole in the 1950s British security services, calls in a favour from his old co-worker Stephen. Giles is in hospital and must have stolen secret papers removed from…
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Kolymsky Heights, by Lionel Davidson
Faber and Faber, £8.99, out now Recently re-released in paperback, Phillip Pullman in his new introduction describes this 1994 spy adventure novel as “the best thriller I’ve ever read”. The head scientist of a supremely secret Russian base in Siberia sends an urgent message to a friend in the West, asking him to send help.…