Description
Product ID: | 9781611854725 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Joe Wilderness series |
Title: | Hammer to Fall |
Authors: | Author: John Lawton |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense fiction, Political / legal thriller, Thriller / suspense, Political / legal thriller |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The third Joe Wilderness spy thriller from a master of the genre, moving from icy Finland to tumultuous Cold War Prague, Hammer to Fall is a tale of vodka smuggling and a legendary female Red Army general who is playing a dangerous game. It''s London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange program to promote Britain abroad. Bored by his work, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money: smuggling vodka across the border into the USSR. He strikes a deal with old KGB pal Kostya, who explains to him there is a vodka shortage in the Soviet Union - but there is something fishy about Kostya''s sudden appearance in Finland and intelligence from London points to a connection to cobalt mining in the region, a critical component in the casing of the atomic bomb. Wilderness''s posting is getting more interesting by the minute, but more dangerous too. |
Imprint Name: | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
Publisher Name: | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-04-01 |