{"product_id":"9781529426090-darkling-spy-1","title":"The Darkling Spy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA gripping Cold War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spy thriller that will change your view of the Cold War forever, by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carre'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spy thriller that will change your view of the Cold War forever, by  a former special forces officer who is '\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epoised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'More  George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers   looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust, 1956. A generation of British spies is haunted by the ghosts of friends turned traitor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whitehall spymaster Henry Bone has long held Butterfly to be the Holy Grail of Cold War Intelligence. His brain is an archive of deadly secrets - he can identify each and every traitor spy as well as the serving British agents who helped them. And now Bone learns that Butterfly plans to defect to the Americans. Unless Bone gets to him first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Catesby, a spy with his reputation in tatters, is pressured into posing as a defector in order to track down Butterfly. His quest leads him from Berlin, through a shower of Molotov cocktails in Budapest, to dinner alone with the East German espionage legend Mischa Wolf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e  'A gripping Cold War story centred on a Berlin seething with agents and counterspies' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmart, finely written' \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'All you could want in a spy thriller' Oliver James\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Edward Wilson:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Stylistically sophisticated . Wilson knows how to hold the reader's attention' W.G. Sebald\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A reader is really privileged to come across something like this' Alan Sillitoe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40266820878433,"sku":"9781529426090","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29771907.jpg?v=1726065980","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529426090-darkling-spy-1","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}