Red Star Falling
A Thriller
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Publisher Description
A gripping spy thriller from "one of the most ingenious espionage writers" in the world
In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by the FSB, Russia's intelligence-service successor to the infamous KGB. Charlie is Russia's long-term target in British counter-intelligence, and Moscow is determined to extract, by whatever means necessary, every secret of British—and Western—espionage over Charlie's thirty-year career.
Charlie's determined not only to resist the interrogation but to learn from it if his Russian intelligence-officer wife and their daughter escaped the trap that snared him and have reached England. He embarks on a cat-and-mouse battle of deception to convince his interrogators that they're learning what they want—or think they want—aware that one misspoken word could be fatal.
That's not Charlie's only problem. He's also trying to work out how his escape was foiled. It could not have been only due to the FSB, or his wife and daughter would have been caught as well. His MI5 boss doesn't think it was, either, and suspects treachery by Britain's external intelligence organization, MI6. To help discover the truth, Natalia, Charlie's wife, uses all the Russian tradecraft she's ever learned to help save her husband.
Red Star Falling—the third in the Red Star trilogy—continues the acclaimed series that has established Brian Freemantle as one of the world's most ingenious espionage writers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The talky concluding volume of Freemantle's Red Star trilogy (after 2012's Red Star Burning) finds MI5 operative Charlie Muffin in the custody of the FSB, the KGB's successor, which seeks "to inflict the heaviest punishment possible for the incalculable damage he's caused them." As he endures interrogation and torture, Muffin hopes that his wife, Natalia Fedova, a former Russian agent, and his daughter are safely on British soil and he wonders who might have aided in his capture on the British side. Meanwhile, back in London, the Machiavellian MI6 director, Gerald Monsford, is fretting about whether his "designated assassin," Stephan Briddle, has successfully terminated Muffin. While MI6 is trying to cover its tracks, MI5 is trying to figure everything out; while Muffin is trying to foil his captors and stay alive, Fedova is trying to save her husband. Freemantle ties up many loose ends in this complex tapestry of intrigue, but only fans of the first two Red Star books are likely to care.
