Comrade Charlie
-
- $8.99
-
- $8.99
Publisher Description
Charlie Muffin comes face-to-face with his KGB nemesis in this thriller filled with “intricate plotting, gripping intrigue, and a memorable romance” (Kirkus Reviews). Charlie Muffin is too good an agent to be working a desk, but after a bust-up with his new director, he has been relegated to clerk work. Among the heaps of papers, though, Charlie stumbles upon the clues to a last-gasp plot from the collapsing Soviet Union. The signs point to a new Soviet Star Wars system—and to the involvement of a British traitor. Or do they? After all, the KGB wants one more chance to eliminate their old adversary Charlie. When the agency discovers his involvement, it sets a nasty trap. As the Soviet regime crumbles, it could take Charlie down with it. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Intricate, funny and highly satisfying, this fast-paced thriller again features veteran British intelligence agent Charlie Muffin, last seen in See Charlie Run . Here he is in operational limbo, dogged by the acting director general Richard Harkness, whose nitpicking rules may be designed to get rid of the freewheeling agent. Charlie's old KGB enemy Berenkov is also gunning for him, using his former lover Natalia (herself a KGB agent) as bait in a trap constructed of threatened Star Wars secrets. The Reds run two traitors--an American industrialist and a British bigamist--while setting up Charlie, who has discovered the operation. Meanwhile, Harkness builds a case to prove that the working-class, foulmouthed Charlie is himself a traitor. But in a series of countermoves (some of which are kept from the reader), Charlie brilliantly confutes all enemies and apparently wins back Natalia in an entrancing, breathtaking denouement. Billed as an historical thriller (in light of the changes in Russia since the book was first published in England in 1989), Charlie's latest escapade should send new readers scurrying to find earlier Charlie Muffin tales.
