Dead Man Telling Tales
Genre:
Thriller
Author:
David Brierley
Publisher:
Safe House Books
Language:
English
AUTHOR BIO:
David Brierley was born in Durban. He moved to Canada, then England and back to South Africa all by the age of thirteen. Travel and curiosity about different countries is deep in his nature. After Oxford University, he taught at a lycée in France followed by work in London advertising agencies. Once his career as a novelist was established he moved to France. As well as writing, he was a prison visitor. Together with his wife Jill he created a garden that won first prize in a regional competitio...
Pages:
328
Publication:
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DESCRIPTION:
England, 2001. Matt Clough is an ordinary English wine-merchant, approaching middle age with no family and no great ambition. An orphan. An ex-spy.
Latvia, 2001. Krisjanis Kulbergs is far from ordinary. Ex-spy. Double agent. Master of the triple-cross. Guilty of just about every crime or sin the twentieth century had to offer. He is the unknown father of English wine-merchant Matt Clough. He is also dead.
When Clough learns of the death of a father he never knew, he travels to Latvia to uncover the secrets of his father’s life and his own inheritance. The Cold War has been over for a decade, but some men still keep secrets so great that old spies from both sides of the divide will go to any lengths to get hold of them.
Including murder.
REVIEWS:
Tough...witty...in the best tradition of suspense fiction. New Yorker Super skilled graft of fiction onto history...an authentic winner. Sunday Times Unusual, exotic and tantalising. Irish Times Has the rancid strength of a distillation of the best of Le Carré and Deighton: an authentic winner. Sunday Times In the top flight of thriller writers. Natal Mercury Smashing action scenes...superb entertainment. New York Times Book Review Espionage in the le Carré class The Observer Brierley’s style is first class, and his evocation of external bleakness...is superb. The Jerusalem Post One is definitely hooked from the first page BBC French Service Written with all the sly cynicism of the spy world, along with some wonderful descriptions of a country coming to terms with a changing prese...
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