Fatal Ally

Wow! This was good. A beautifully written, plotted and conceives spy thriller by an experienced writer still at the top of his game. The characters were credible and well drawn and the book drew me in from the first chapter. This was pacy and exciting stuff and sizzling with action and political intr......more

I really wanted to give this novel high grade but in the end I could not. I would give it a 2.5 . It is not a fast read for a short novel. There is a lot of introspecting by the main characters wonder why they are doing what they are doing and lean on action. The end was forshadowed well in advance.......more

After American Intelligence betrayed Margo Lane’s Russian contact to Moscow, she had no reason to trust the Americans. Now the British Service has heard from a Russian agent who has had no contact with them for five years. He is offering to provide intelligence in exchange for asylum. An invitation......more

It has been a long time between books for British journalist and spy writer Tim Sebastian. His last spy thriller, Ultra, appeared in 1997 and appeared to make the end of a relatively brief, but notable, spy writing career of nine books over the same number of years. Now after a twenty year, or so, b......more

Cynicism writ large. No nation (of the Russians, Americans or Brits) comes out of this spy thriller at all honourably: what a surprise. Intricate plot, especially once the extraction from Syria begins (so many different groups trying to find their prey it was at times hard to keep track). Pacy page......more