A Russian actor on the KGB payroll...
A middle aged wife with a fatal sense of guilt...
A seductive Slav beauty, fuel for an ageing diplomat's sexual fantasies...
A severely compromised British ambassador to Moscow who will return to Britain as the Prime Minister's personal advisor...
Their shadowy dance has begun to a tune of betrayal, disillusionment and death, and a nation's fate hangs in the balance.
Read MoreRemarkably credible...high rarity in espionage fiction, an original plot - The Times... this absorbing novel, as accomplished as his later work. ... thoroughly engrossing tale... For lovers of spy thrillers, and for Allbeury's fans in particular, it offers an indispensable look backward at the way the world was not so long ago. - Booklist