The Madness of July: A Thriller - Softcover

Naughtie, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468311662 ISBN 13: 9781468311662

Verlag: OVERLOOK PR, 2017

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Naughtie is a capable and elegant writer and captures the novel's 1970s setting well . . . Filled with atmospheric set-pieces and sharp descriptions.--Tom Nolan

Naughtie makes his fiction debut with a nuanced, character-driven spy thriller set over six days in the late 1970s. When a clerk stumbles on a dead American in a House of Parliament cupboard, trouble ensues because on the body are the name and phone number of ex-spy Will Flemyng, now a minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London . . . dramatic dialogue speeds the story along, and the discovery of who is trying to destroy Will--and why--is irresistible.

In his fiction debut, British journalist Naughtie offers a double-twisting spy drama worthy of his countryman le Carré . . . Naughtie lays down an extraordinarily complex narrative . . . every page seems to chronicle encounters where one character or another schemes to uncover or hide evidence, all the deviousness pronounced in the right accent.

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The Madness of July is set in the late 1970s, and takes place during six sweltering days in the month that gives the book its title. Will Flemyng was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines, but now he is in politics—and rising to the top. But when a bizarre death starts to unravel some of the most sensitive secrets of his government, Will is drawn back into the shadows of the Cold War and begins to dance with danger once more.Buffeted by political forces and the powerful women around him, and caught in interlocking mysteries he must disentangle—including a potentially lethal family secret—Flemyng faces his vulnerability and learns, through betrayal and tragedy, more truth about his world than he has ever known. Masterfully weaving together espionage, political intrigue, and family drama, James Naughtie has written a spy novel for the ages, worthy of comparison to the finest work of Charles McCarry and Robert Littell.

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• Verlag: OVERLOOK PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1468311662
• ISBN 13: 9781468311662
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400