This author's new departure reveals similar talents to those of John le Carré in his best days. Inspired by events during and after WWII, he tells the story of the recruitment into the world of espionage and treason of a Russian immigrant in Paris which she recounts to her daughter in England many years later. The plot is ingeniously constructed, alternating between the daughter's world of today and the mother's life a generation earlier.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 40 June 2007 ) |
