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Choosing verisimilitude over excitement, this offering from a former high-ranking Scotland Yard offical will please procedural fans more than it will espionage aficionados. Detective Chief Superintendent Gaffney of Special Branch leads a sting operation to find a leak in British counterintelligence. The same team of MI5 agents has lost two KGB operatives in quick succession. Shortly after losing a third, the team's leader apparently commits suicide. Gaffney continues his probe, questioning various MI5 officers and families, none very nice and some rather nasty. After many starts, stops and false leads, Gaffney unravels an ingenious long-term KGB sleeper operation. Ison's characterizations aren't very deep, but the novel has a plausible ring not unlike the true-life spy stories the British do so well.
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Two highly sensitive missions involving Eastern bloc "Illegals" have gone awry, raising suspicions that Britain's MI5 has a mole. The Home Secretary orders Special Branch of Scotland Yard to investigate. John Gaffney of SB deftly handles the matter by engineering a bogus operation that successfully ferrets out the spies. Ison has taken the weary idea of spy infiltration and fashioned a sad story of deceit and regret that has thoughtful characterization, attention to detail, and a suspenseful plot. The author's first U.S. publication, this is highly recommended.
-Joseph M. Levandoski, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
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-Joseph M. Levandoski, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
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