In the Red - Softcover

Egleton, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340544120 ISBN 13: 9780340544129

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1991

Synopsis

Freeland is sent by M16 to get a man out of Shanghai before it falls to the Communists. The operation goes wrong and he is switched to Germany and then to New York. The author also wrote The Russian Enigma, Picture of the Year, A Different Drummer and Death of a Sahib.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In Egleton's latest, formulaic thriller ( Missing from the Record ), British intelligence agent Harry Freeland has been sent to Shanghai in 1949 to bring out another operative. As becomes increasingly apparent, however, Freeland seems to have a propensity for bringing bad luck to those around him while surviving himself; though the mission is bungled, Harry escapes. This does not go unnoticed by his superiors in London, who in 1952 send him to West Germany to recruit agents in the Cold War. While there, he discovers the whereabouts of the sadistic Gestapo officer who had directed Harry's torture during WW II, when Harry broke down and disclosed the identity of a French Resistance fighter, since then the subject of his guilt-ridden nightmares. The denouement occurs in the U.S., where Harry, now under serious suspicion of being a double agent, has been dispatched to keep an eye on someone who has been commissioned to watch him. Although Egleton succeeds in evoking the morally ambiguous atmosphere of the spy trade, the separate parts of Harry's story bear very little relationship to one another. One keeps waiting, in vain, for the plot to mesh. The ingredients are there--foreign intrigue, bloody action and a hint of sex. They just fail to connect.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0340544120
• ISBN 13: 9780340544129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352