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Bezig met laden... The darkling spy (editie 2010)door Edward Wilson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A pitch perfect, classic Cold War Spy novel. Catesby is an English spy from the wrong side of the tracks, send to Berlin, crossing paths with the famed Man Without a Face, Markus Wolf, the head of east German intelligence. The romance and the espionage tradecraft are well handled. If you like Le Carre, you will like this. Recommended. ( ) Nearly forty years ago my grandmother's response to watching 'The Sting' was, 'Och, well, I'm none the wiser!' which has passed down into family lore as a byword for utter bemusement. That was how I felt reading this book. It certainly started well complementing Wilson's previous book 'The Envoy'. This is not exactly a sequel as it fits around the events in the earlier book, telling the story from a different perspective. It did, however, suddenly lurch from London to Pest in Hungary. I presume I must have blinked or something because I felt completely lost. None the wiser, in fact. I was reading it in e-book form so I wondered whether someone had deleted part of it in transit! As with The Envoy, Wilson cleverly merged real events with his Byzantine plot, and the principal protagonist, William Catesby, is very sympathetic, battling against class prejudice as he works his way up the greasy pole of the secret service. I am, however, not convinced overall that the story was sufficiently rewarding for the mental effort required. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)William Catesby (2)
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London, 1956. A generation of British spies are haunted by the ghosts of friends turned traitor. A book that will change the reader's view of the Cold War forever. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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