Jack of Spies - Softcover

David Downing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190869971X ISBN 13: 9781908699718

Publisher: Old Street Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

JACK MCCOLL is a globe-trotting salesman for a luxury car firm. He is also a part-time spy with the fledgling Secret Service. As 1913 ends he is in China, checking out the German naval base at Tsingtao between car shows in Peking and Shanghai.
CAITLIN HANLEY is an American journalist with the sort of views most British men would find dangerously advanced. McColl is no exception, but once smitten he finds himself unwilling to give her up -- even when his undeclared career as a spy begins to be compromised.
THEN the pair are caught up in a plot that imperils the Empire in its hour of greatest need...

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Jack of Spies

Review

'In the elite company of literary spy masters Alan Furst and Philip Kerr'
Washington Post

'Remarkable ... Downing is one of the brightest lights in the shadowy world of historical spy fiction'
Birmingham Post

'A superb sequence of spy novels comes to an end . . . Like its predecessors, Masaryk Station offers tight, intelligent plots full of moral ambiguities and a cast of shadowy characters for whom deception is as natural as breathing. The clammy atmosphere of espionage is wonderfully conveyed.'
Marcel Berlins in THE TIMES

'The author not only creates intrigue but, over the course of six engrossing novels chronicles the shifting conscience of his main character. His descriptions ring true, not only in moments of crisis and action but of the quotidian days between: prewar negotiations, threats and reprieves, false alarms, dashed hopes, everyday pleasures, encroaching dread . . . Almost epic in scope, Downing's Station cycle creates a fictional universe rich with a historian's expertise but rendered with literary style and heart.'
WALL STREET JOURNAL on the Station series

'Downing's outstanding evocation of the times (as masterly as that found in Alan Furst's novels or Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series), thematic complexity (as rich as that of John le Carré), and the wide assortment of fully rendered characters provide as much or more pleasure than the plot, where disparate threads are tied together in satisfying and unexpected ways.'
Library Journal on Masaryk Station

'Excellent ... Downing's strength is his fleshing out of the tense and often dangerous nature of everyday life in a totalitarian state
The Times

'An extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany'
C.J. SANSOM on Zoo Station

'Stands with Alan Furst for detail and atmosphere'
DONALD JAMES

'Outstanding'
Publishers Weekly on Lehrter Station

'Think Robert Harris and Fatherland mixed with a dash of Le Carré
Sue Baker, Publishing News

'A wonderfully drawn spy novel . . . A very auspicious debut, with more to come'
The Bookseller on Zoo Station

'Exciting and frightening all at once . . . It's got everything going for it'
Julie Walters

'An outstanding thriller . . . This series is a quite remarkable achievement'
Shots magazine --...

About this edition

• Publisher: Old Street Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 190869971X
• ISBN 13: 9781908699718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352