Author: FREEMANTLE, BRIAN (1936-)
Title: Comrade Charlie / Brian Freemantle
Description: London : Century 1989. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description; 443p. ; 22cm. Summary; This is another spy novel about Charlie Muffin. who is here reunited with Natalia Fedova. the KGB agent with whom he fell in love and who is involved in a plot to steal the blueprint for a new American rocket. Review: After several clinkers (O'Farrell's Law. 1989. etc.). Freemantle proved with Little Grey Mice (p. 368) that he can write a solid spy novel outside of his Charlie Muffin series (The Run Around. 1989. etc.). Now it's back to Charlie - who's in deep water but finest fettle. dodging schemes by rival British agents. as well as by the KGB. The story begins on a roguish note. with scrappy Charlie wooing the secretary of new boss and longtime rival Richard Harkness to find out his latest plans to ruin Charlie's career. Harkness's enmity is small potatoes. though. compared to that of Charlie's old foe. KGB general Alexei Berenkov. who's setting about during these final Gorbachev days to steal America's Star Wars plans and. as a bonus. to destroy Charlie. The action shifts from London to Moscow to L.A. where one of Berenkov's agents blackmails a top defense contractor (and unfaithful husband) into turning over his company's Star Wars plans. Back in London. at the facility aiding in Star Wars. a midlevel employee (and bigamist) is blackmailed by another Soviet spy; and. back in Moscow. Berenkov orders Charlie's old flame. KGB agent Natalie Fedova. on a mission to Britain. knowing that Charlie will contact her. And Charlie does. passionately reuniting with Natalie - and stepping into Berenkov's plot to pin him as the Star Wars thief through Berenkov's planting incriminating evidence for gullible Harkness to collect. Will Natalie defect for love of Charlie? Will Charlie swing from the noose woven by Berenkov/Harkness? It all comes down to a rousingly climactic department hearing in which wily Charlie pulls rabbits out of his sleeve - while. with her plane about to take her back to Moscow. Natalie waits for Charlie. and waits. Intricate plotting. gripping intrigue. and a memorable romance add up to the tastiest Muffin in many a year. (Kirkus Reviews) Subjects; Fiction in English — 1945- — Texts. Espionage & spy thriller. NON-CLASSIFIABLE. Genre; Fiction. ISBN: 0712625232. Weight in Kg appr.:

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