SEE CHARLIE RUN - Softcover

Brian Freemantle

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ISBN 10: 0099535904 ISBN 13: 9780099535904

Publisher: Random House UK, 1988

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Charlie Muffin, the British Secret Service's most unconventional agent, undertakes the most delicate - and deadly - mission of his remarkable and controversial career. Muffin's arrogant disregard for rules has got him into trouble again - only someone as off-beat could handle the current crisis. Rumours have reached Whitehall that a top KGB assassin named Kozlov is about to defect to the CIA in Japan. The catch is that Kozlov wants his wife to defect as well - to the Brits. It's Charlie's job to confirm that the KGB agent is genuine. Then he has to get Kozlov's wife out of Japan safely. Charlie soon realizes his suspicions are true: he is a pawn in an elaborate double-cross that only a mind as devious or crafty as his own could recognize - or top. "The most interesting character to hit novels of international intrigue since the spy came in from the cold" NEWSDAY

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About the Author:

Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition—he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, England.

From AudioFile:

Charlie Muffin is the world's most unusual, unlikely, yet somehow believable secret agent. As in the earlier novels in this engaging series, Charlie is on the bad side of everyone in his agency except the director. That may or may not hinder him when he is sent to Japan to help the wife of a KGB assassin who is about to defect to the CIA, in order to defect to the British secret service. An elaborate double cross? Perhaps. But Charlie, irreverent, disreputable, and disrespectful as he is, is most of all, very good at what he does. Hayward Morse's version of Charlie is perfect. The combination of grit and resonance in his voice makes him sound like a seedy, aging, footsore operative who has complete confidence in himself, and none in anyone else. His Russians are also entirely believable. A grand listen. R.E.K. � AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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