Hammer to Fall

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27370020497
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Books
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8.99
book_author_name: 
John Lawton
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
published_date: 
01/04/2021
isbn: 
9781611854725
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Books > Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction
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John Lawton|Paperback|Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press|01/04/2021
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9781611854725
Book Description: 
It's London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange program to promote Britain abroad. Bored by his work, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money: smuggling vodka across the border into the USSR. He strikes a deal with old KGB pal Kostya, who explains to him there is a vodka shortage in the Soviet Union - but there is something fishy about Kostya's sudden appearance in Finland and intelligence from London points to a connection to cobalt mining in the region, a critical component in the casing of the atomic bomb. Wilderness's posting is getting more interesting by the minute, but more dangerous too.Moving from the no-man's-land of Cold War Finland to the wild days of the Prague Spring, and populated by old friends (including Inspector Troy) and old enemies alike, Hammer to Fall is a gripping tale of deception and skulduggery, of art and politics, a page-turning story of the always riveting life of the British spy.

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