The Memory Room

Christopher Koch

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What is a spy? Are they born, or are they made?' With these words, Vincent Austin analyses his futureoccupation. Some spies are made, he says, but his kind is born. He is devoted to secrecy for its own sake. Vincent isorphaned early, and his boyhood in Tasmania is spent with an elderly aunt. His fascination with secrecy and espionage -and much else besides - is shared to an uncanny degree by Erika Lange, daughter of a post-World War German immigrant.She too has lost her mother, and she and Vincent see themselves as twin spirits, inhabiting a shared, platonic world offantasy and ritual. At University, Vincent aims to enter Foreign Affairs - an ambition shared by his easygoing friend DerekBradley. However, in his final year, Vincent is recruited by ASIS - Australia's overseas secret intelligence service - and hisadolescent dream becomes reality. Erika becomes a journalist, eventually entering the overseas service as a press officer.She is an attractive and magnetic woman, but her emotional life is chaotic. She, Vincent and Bradley meet again in 1982,when they are in their thirties, and have all been posted to the Australian Embassy in Beijing. Here, Erika and Bradl.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Memory Room
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 630 grams