Jack Grimwood Pořadí knih

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July 1940. The Nazis launch their invasion of Britain - starting with the Channel Islands... And soldier turned safecracker Bill O'Hagan gets an offer: hang for his crimes, or serve his country. The mission - land on occupied Alderney, impersonate a local, steal the invasion plans, escape. He almost believes they're not lying to him. In Portugal, the former king, Edward, Duke of Windsor, receives an altogether different proposal from Germany: support the invasion and he'll get his throne back. But Edwards will not readily betray his country... An embittered former king. An unreformed thief. And a secret upon which the fates of nations lie..

Major Tom Fox is despatched to East Berlin to bring home a traitor who defected to escape justice. But it's clear that there's more at stake than an old man wanting to return home to face the music. Powerful forces on both sides of the Iron Curtain stand to lose if the defector is given his day in court. Fox soon finds that in the upside-down world of Cold War Berlin he's operating alone in the enemy's backyard, unsure of who he can trust. And if Fox is going to succeed in his mission, let alone escape with his life, he will need to draw on skills learned during a past he's trying to forget . . .

Návykový a velmi inteligentní thriller odehrávající se přímo v temném srdci komunistického režimu v období studené války. Štědrý den roku 1985. Na Rudém náměstí je nalezeno odkrvené a vyholené tělo mladého muže. Vzápětí zmizí dcera britského velvyslance. Pátráním je pověřen Tom Fox, major vojenské tajné služby, který je do Moskvy nuceně převelen. Jenže poslední, co mohou Sověti potřebovat, je cizí agent čmuchající v jejich rajonu. A vrah, jehož existenci Sověti nemohou vůbec přiznat, se chystá znovu mstít. První vražda byla totiž jen varováním.