Yesterday's Spy: The fast-paced new suspense thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Secret Service

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But Cutler is not quite what he seems, and Cairo is a city of fool’s gold, where nothing can be taken at face value. Harry discovers, however, that enemies from his past are also willing to use the current developments to settle old scores.

He’s also been bought out by millionaire tycoon Zach Petrovitch – who just happens to be married to the love of Mickey’s life. All they have in common is their courage – until the day their lives converge in ways they could never have imagined. The book travels back and forth between 1935 and the 1950's so there's no use of mobile phones and the latest technology, which really intrigued me and I also enjoyed the history lesson as had no real knowledge of the time in Iran, but found it really interesting. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Bringing the Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy, and Bernard Samson’s story, to a stunning conclusion, this final volume brilliantly shows the human cost of the spying game.

Amanda committed suicide and Bradby blends her story into the relationship between father and son very skilfully. or at least one that could be more easily rationalized than all the others that followed in Guatemala, the Congo, and Chile.

With the support of the country’s leading mullah, Abol-Ghasem Kashani, Americans under the command of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR – even if it puts the whole world at risk. Len Deighton’s first post-Cold War novel is a chilling and compelling story of revolution and betrayal. But when he takes a train from Moscow to Berlin, he stumbles across a clue that may lead him to the truth at last – even though, in finding the answers, he could lose everything. Tom Bradby’s recently completed trilogy about MI6 operative Kate Henderson was a stand-out series that compared favourably to the latest novels by fellow British spymasters Mick Herron, Henry Porter and Charles Cumming. A slow-burner at times, Tower is portrayed as a man conflicted as he travels across Iran with his son’s Iranian girlfriend, Shahnaz, herself the rebellious daughter of a general, steering him through bureaucratic and military obstacles.

There really is something for everyone, the intrigue you would expect in a Spy Thriller, plenty of action as Shahnaz finds out that Harry really is pretty handy in tight situations, guilt and introspection from Harry all too aware of the people he has hurt in his lifetime plus a ringside view of what a coup d'etat is like in the middle of 1950's Tehran. I knew nothing at all about Iran in 1953 before reading this book, which I assume referred to actual historical events, given that it featured a cameo appearance from Winston Churchill.Thrown into this real life subterfuge are the fictional characters of this story namely Harry Tower, a long serving MI5 operative but a bit of a misfit, his estranged son Sean, a reporter who has gone missing in Iran and Sean's girlfriend Shahnaz whose also has an estranged father, an important figure in the Iranian Military. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain.

Without the discovery of an inexhaustible supply of oil in Iran, the British Empire would never have won two world wars. But when Sean disappears in Iran after writing an article critical of certain “powers-that-be,” Harry’s on the next plane to Teheran to find him. Deep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator – while the CIA see an opportunity. Still, he might be considered a has-been by some but in 1953 he is still able to breeze into 10 Downing Street and is on friendly terms with the PM, Sir Winston Churchill. He quickly realizes that he knows very little about Sean’s life, made clear when he teams up with his son’s Iranian girlfriend Shahnaz, who has her own secrets and her own agenda.Curiously, the whole time the conflict is happening Harry has the feeling a man is watching him, assessing his actions. Harry understandably blames himself but wishes he could do more for Sean, who wants nothing that Harry tries to give him. 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. The background is a mole in MI6 – (not mentioned here is that two years earlier double-agents Burgess and Maclean defected – another 10 years before Kim Philby was outed) – and Tower, dogged by SIS operatives, is unsure who can be trusted.