Moskva - Jack Grimwood - Paperback Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - 2016 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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*Longlisted for the 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller* ''Even better than Child 44 '' Daily Telegraph ''Peppered with memorable characters, carved with precision, ... highly recommended'' Shots Magazine''Given that the definitive thriller in 1980''s Moscow already exists ( Gorky Park ), Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it''s one that comes off'' Sunday Times ''A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma . . .'' January, 1986. A week after disgraced Intelligence Officer Tom Fox is stationed to Moscow the British Ambassador''s fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing. Fox is ordered to find her, and fast. But the last thing the Soviets want is a foreign agent snooping about on their turf. Not when a killer they can''t even acknowledge let alone catch is preparing to kill again . . .A Cold War thriller haunted by an evil legacy from the Second World War, Moskva is a journey into the dark heart of another time and place.''Mesmerising, surefooted, vividly realised . . . something special in the arena of international thrillers'' Financial Times ''A compulsive and supremely intelligent thriller from a master stylist'' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men ''A blizzard of exciting set pieces, superbly realized'' Daily Telegraph