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The more Harry digs the more he wonders if the many sins of his past are catching up with him, and that he and his son are in much more danger than he thought. When he gets news that his son, who is a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian went missing in Tehran he knows he's the only one who will be able to find him. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed ‘Mickey Mouse’), who is almost on his way to becoming a Flying Ace, and reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, who is starting to fall in love with an English woman. But there are also scenes of action and danger that Ian Fleming or Robert Ludlum might well have enjoyed. There were entertaining bits where Harry managed to evade whoever was currently following him by employing spy craft, but mainly I failed to engage with him or with Shahnaz, his son's fiancee, who seemed to act with remarkable autonomy for an Iranian woman in 1953, but as I said, what do I know about Iran in 1953.
All records of it have been hidden, and anyone who discovers the truth dies – their file stamped XPD; Expedient Demise. As is typical of spy novels that incorporate a mole, the reader is asked to guess the mole’s identity.
Tower is a senior SIS agent, a boy from working class background who went to Cambridge on a scholarship and is now trusted enough to walk into No. The sequel to Len Deighton’s game-changing debut, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has been sent to find them amongst the city’s teeming streets and bazaars, before it is too late. Curiously, the whole time the conflict is happening Harry has the feeling a man is watching him, assessing his actions.
In the gripping, tragic finale of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, everything we thought we knew is brought into question.
Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues – including his own wife Fiona – rise up the ranks of MI6. Quarter bound in brown cloth over orange card boards, top edge coloured (boards strong and square, a little worn). In the thrilling penultimate instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, Bernard’s personal and professional life collide with devastating consequences. His son disappears while covering the news in Iran prior to the coup d’etat in 1953, in which Iran went from a democracy to a monarchy.
It is primarily set in the early 1950s and focuses upon Harry Tower, recently retired British Secret Service agent. I have to say it took me a bit to get into this book as I was thinking about a similar character I'd read in other books, however once you got your head round this one, what a great book it was to read.Also the country of Iran is a major character in the story, described well with a nice background and history that doesn't bog the story down, or hold things up. Bradby’s treatment of Iranian settings and Iran’s society, politics, foreign affairs, and economy in 1953 is first-rate.
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