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A nailbiting Cold War thriller from the author of the bestselling Kolymsky Heights .

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The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights

´Quite simply the best thriller writer around.´ Spectator

Nicolas Whistler is young, bored and in debt. When an opportunity to make some money arises, he can´t turn it down. He is sent to Prague to carry out a simple assignment, but he soon finds himself trapped between the secret police and the clutches of the mysterious Vlasta. Whether he likes it or not, Nicolas is now a spy.

´Fast-moving, exciting, often extraordinarily funny.´ Sunday Times

´Brilliant. Don´t miss it.´ Observer

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Quite simply the best thriller writer around. Spectator

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Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas , was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carré. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962), A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers´ Association Gold Dagger Award and, in 2001, was awarded the CWA´s Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009.

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