The Defector [Hardcover]

Evelyn Anthony (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Hutchinson; Reprint edition (1983)
• ISBN-10: 0091429501
• ISBN-13: 978-0091429508
• ASIN: B000JCAR4S
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Defector, October 13, 2001

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"golterpa" (West Chester, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Defector (Audio Cassette)

I enjoyed this book very much. As always Evelyn Anthony comes up with great plots and (the narrator) Carolyn Pickles keeps you interested until the end. The KGB defector leaves his country, his wife and his daughter. He falls in love with the woman agent that is debrieging him. When the agency finds out that they are lovers they make her sign an agreement to never see him again. She then volunteers to go to Russia and bring back his family to England. When in Russia she learns that there is a spy in the group that is to help with the rescue. Read the book to find out what happens to the women he loves and what they have to go through. It'll be worth it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book ffom a Good Author, April 7, 2002

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John G. Hilliard (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Defector (Audio Cassette)

I really enjoyed this book. I know the author has been around for some time but this is the first work of hers I have read. The plot was very good and she really took time to develop the characters. The book keeps a good steady pace throughout. If you are looking for an old cold war spy thriller then this will fit the bill.

3.0 out of 5 stars A smooth thriller, April 22, 2006

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HORAK (Zug, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Defector (Signet) (Mass Market Paperback)

Davina Graham is about to be given the delicate task of debriefing a Soviet defector, Colonel Ivan Sasanov of Russian Security.

But soon Sasanov announces that he refuses to co-operate with the British lest his wife Fedya and his daughter Irina are brought from Russia to England, an operation which will prove to be far from easy to accomplish.

When the annexe at Halldale Manor burns down to the ground, Davina and Sasanov realise that the KGB is already after them.

A classic espionage thriller set in the cold war era which reminds us how quickly time passes...