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Tim Sebastian Special Relations
Orion 1857972538 / 9781857972535 Hardcover Good
1857972538 Editorial Reviews n nFrom Library Journal nDavid Bradley and Alison Lane met in Oxford, England, in the 1960s. They fell in love and planned to be married, until David felt a compelling need to serve his country in Vietnam. Alison deplored the war and refused to wait for him. Now, 30 years later, they meet again as allies in an international crisis. David is President of the United States, and Alison is Britain's Prime Minister. In seeking to find a solution to the crisis, David and Alison rediscover their feelings for each other. Sebastian's (Exit Berlin, Audio Reviews, LJ 10/15/94) plot is rather contrived and offers little in the way of surprises, even if the tale benefits from a happy ending. Steve Hodson reads well, but his American voices are not convincing. Only large fiction collections need consider. n nJoanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence n nCopyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. n nProduct Description nIn 1962, an American student at Oxford falls in love with an English girl, but it ends abruptly and painfully - and for her, tragically. When they meet again it is as President David Bradley and Prime Minister Alison Lane, in the midst of a growing international crisis.
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Tim Sebastian The Spy In Question
Bantam Books 0553175246 / 9780553175240 PAPERBACK Good
0553175246 From Publishers Weekly nFormer BBC correspondent Sebastian (who wrote of his expulsion from the U.S.S.R. on espionage charges in I Spy in Russia) set this workmanlike, methodical first novel in wintry, forbidding Moscow, a city full of spies, counteragents and distrust. It's 1990, and Dmitry Kalyagin is about to attain membership in Gorbachev's politburo when his long-dormant status as a mole for the British is suddenly reactivated. English intelligence man George Parker, feeling indebted to Kalyagin, begins a covert effort to pull the agent out before his Soviet counterparts discover the traitor's identity. But as the body count starts to rise, Parker's attempts to protect Kalyagin are hampered by both Russian ruthlessness and British indifference. Parker's dogged persistence and Kalyagin's increasing desperation lead to a climactic showdown in the Moscow streets between two networks of spies. Despite a slow start and characterization that is both sketchy and cliched, this adroitly plotted novel builds to a compelling conclusion that stays true to Sebastian's bleak, cynical tone. nCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. n n nFrom Library Journal nAfter years of waiting, a British intelligence mole has risen through the ranks to high responsibility in the Kremlin. When it looks as though he is about to be exposed by the KGB, George Parker, the MI6 agent at the Moscow embassy, tries to save him despite London's disinterest. Since the author worked as the BBC's Moscow correspondent (and was himself expelled for spying), one can assume that the background data and characterizations are impeccable. The same cannot be said for the story which, in an attempt to convey the shadowy subtleties and grey intricacies of the espionage demiworld, spends more time baffling than informing the reader. One of those clever novels in which complex convolution and unnecessary ambiguity of plot supersede its entertainment value. John North, LRC Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto nCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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