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From Radio 4's James Naughtie, a sophisticated thriller about loyalty, survival and family rivalry deep in the Cold War, drawing on decades of experience as a political insider in Westminster and Washington.It is a sweltering July in the mid-1970s, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature is rising with each passing hour. A mysterious death has exposed secret passions in government, bringing on a political crisis that will draw him back into a familiar world of danger and deceit.
For Flemyng has a past. He was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines and now heรขยยs compelled to go back. In the course of one long weekend he must question all his loyalties รขยย to his friends, his rivals and to his own two brothers.
Only then can he expose the truth in London and Washington. When he has walked through the fire. ISBN:9781781856000