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When the cold war ended, everyone thought the spy novel was finished, too. We were wrong, of course, because we failed to notice that what made the genre work was the way it reflected ongoing issues in our own lives. That point is hammered home again in this accomplished espionage tale about an MI6 trainee in the mid-70s who discovers that his now-dead father was a longtime KGB agent. Truth or disinformation? Charles Thoroughgood spends the rest of the novel trying to find out, in the process dancing a dangerous pas de deux with a former college acquaintance now a KGB operative. The real drama, however, comes from Charles making sense of his father's life and, hence, his own. The espionage context gives the soul-searching its frisson, not so much because questions of national honor arise, but because, as Charles' MI6 mentor puts it, the spy world offers "interaction between the individual and bureaucracy, the individual and ideology, the individual and power." How absurd to think any of that could go out of date. Bill Ott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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From Alan Judd, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Devil’s Own Work and author of the acclaimed biography Ford Madox Ford--a mesmerizing tale from the golden age of espionage.
It is the mid-1970s, the height of the Cold War. Charles Thoroughgood, recently discharged from military service, begins, rather comically, his training at MI6. But on one of his first real assignments, the charming but inexpert spook learns from a former Cambridge classmate a secret that threatens to end his career just as it begins: Charles’s deceased father, a decorated military hero, is suspected of having worked for the KGB. As Charles struggles to uncover the truth, ultimately forced to choose between honoring his father and the inexorable code of the Secret Service, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the vortex of the international intelligence machinery--far deeper than any veteran spy, much less a novice, could ever imagine.
Authentic and elegantly told, Legacy is an utterly satisfying new take on a classic genre. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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When the cold war ended, everyone thought the spy novel was finished, too. We were wrong, of course, because we failed to notice that what made the genre work was the way it reflected ongoing issues in our own lives. That point is hammered home again in this accomplished espionage tale about an MI6 trainee in the mid-70s who discovers that his now-dead father was a longtime KGB agent. Truth or disinformation? Charles Thoroughgood spends the rest of the novel trying to find out, in the process dancing a dangerous pas de deux with a former college acquaintance now a KGB operative. The real drama, however, comes from Charles making sense of his father's life and, hence, his own. The espionage context gives the soul-searching its frisson, not so much because questions of national honor arise, but because, as Charles' MI6 mentor puts it, the spy world offers "interaction between the individual and bureaucracy, the individual and ideology, the individual and power." How absurd to think any of that could go out of date. Bill Ott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
From Alan Judd, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Devil’s Own Work and author of the acclaimed biography Ford Madox Ford--a mesmerizing tale from the golden age of espionage.
It is the mid-1970s, the height of the Cold War. Charles Thoroughgood, recently discharged from military service, begins, rather comically, his training at MI6. But on one of his first real assignments, the charming but inexpert spook learns from a former Cambridge classmate a secret that threatens to end his career just as it begins: Charles’s deceased father, a decorated military hero, is suspected of having worked for the KGB. As Charles struggles to uncover the truth, ultimately forced to choose between honoring his father and the inexorable code of the Secret Service, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the vortex of the international intelligence machinery--far deeper than any veteran spy, much less a novice, could ever imagine.
Authentic and elegantly told, Legacy is an utterly satisfying new take on a classic genre. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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