From Publishers Weekly
If anyone can keep the old-fashioned spy novel alive, it's British veteran Egleton (
Cry Havoc; etc.). As usual, he starts things off with a bang: a leading London literary agent receives a tell-all memoir written by an intelligence officer who died in 1989 under highly suspicious circumstances. Before you can say "hot property," the London agent is murdered by two fake cops; the New York bookshop owner who came upon the manuscript is also violently offed; and Peter Ashton—a top SIS officer regarded by his enemies as a loose cannon and by his admirers as a brilliant field agent perhaps unsuited to a desk job—is put in charge. Ashton's wife not only has to help him protect the beautiful young American literary agent who was first offered the memoir but also has to cope with increasing suspicions that Jill Sheridan, Ashton's old flame who was well on her way to becoming head of SIS until she was forced to resign, is somehow behind all the book-related bloodshed. Egleton uses his obvious insider knowledge of intelligence antics to keep his story moving along briskly.
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Review
'If anyone can keep the old-fashioned spy novel alive, it's British veteran Egleton ... Egleton uses his obvious insider knowledge of intelligence antics to keep his story moving along briskly.' Publishers Weekly (Assasination Day) 20040729 'A story line that strikes a raw nerve this day and age -- dealing with the threat of militant extremists...The story has more twists and turns than an English country lane as Egleton leads you through the shady world of counter espionage...almost impossible to put down and once again has proved him to be one of today's best thriller writers.' Doncaster Free Press (Assassination Day) 20040429 'As intense and chilling as le Carre, Egleton is one of today's best thriller writers' -- Booklist (A Killing in Moscow) 20040429 'Arcane plot twists, exotic settings and bursts of violence, with a dollop of civilized sex ...great.' -- New York Times (Blood Money) 20040429 'A classic spy novel, one of the best Egleton has written, using two of his strongest skills: authentic detail and relentless probing to reveal treachery buried deep in the past.' -- Michael Hartland, Daily Telegraph (A Lethal Involv 20040429 'A master of the genre' -- Sunday Telegraph 20040429
