The Dark Clouds Shining, David Downing
The Dark Clouds Shining, David Downing
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The Dark Clouds Shining

Author: David Downing

Narrator: John Curless

Unabridged: 15 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/10/2018


Synopsis

In the fourth and final installment of David Downing's spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution hanging by a thread, plots and betrayals abound. London, 1921: Ex-Secret Service spy Jack McColl is in prison serving time for assaulting a cop. McColl has been embittered by the Great War; he feels betrayed by the country that had sent so many young men to die needlessly. He can't stomach spying for the British Empire anymore. He's also heartbroken. The love of his life, radical journalist Caitlin Hanley, parted ways with him three years earlier so she could offer her services to the Communist revolution in Moscow. Then his former Secret Service boss offers McColl the chance to escape his jail sentence if he takes a dangerous and unofficial assignment in Russia, where McColl is already a wanted man. He would be spying on other spies, sniffing out the truth about MI5 meddling in a high-profile assassination plot. The target is someone McColl cares about and respects. The MI5 agent involved is someone he loathes. With the knowledge that he may be walking into a death trap, McColl sets out for Moscow, the scene of his last heartbreak. Little does he know that his mission will throw him back into Caitlin's life-or that her husband will be one of the men he is trying to hunt down.

About David Downing

David Downing grew up in suburban London. He is the author of the Jack McColl novels, the thriller The Red Eagles, and six books in the John Russell espionage series, set in WWII Berlin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on April 19, 2020

Have enjoyed all of David Downing's books in Jack McColl series.......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on April 25, 2018

A well written story with a great leading character in Jack McColl. The book moves along at a good pace. I could not get into this book and only Read half.......more

Goodreads review by John on May 18, 2018

The final installment of that madcap couple Jack Mc Coll and Caitlin Hanley (Comrade Piatakova now...she's married) When last we them Caitlin had stayed in Russia and Jack returned to the UK broken hearted, but you can't keep a great couple like them down, even though it's been three years (1921). 'C......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on April 10, 2018

With this, the fourth Jack McColl spy story, David Downing concludes the series. It takes place just as the civil war in Soviet Russia is ending and developments are dire with respect to the original high hopes that accompanied the Revolution, and the nation suffers from all kinds of shortages, espe......more

Goodreads review by Corny on May 08, 2018

Jack McColl finds himself in yet another difficult situation. Deep in the heart of Uzbekistan, he has been captured by the Cheka and must find a way out without endangering his lover, the Irish American Caitlin Henry who has become a women's rights activist in Moscow. The time is not the present but......more