| "AIIbeury is arguably the best teller ofspy tales to come out of that growinggroup of authors who were spies them-selves, and I include John le CarrY-in thatjudgment,", said the Washinston Post.With DEEP PURPLE, Ted AIIbeury oncemore takes us into his private world--where espionage is mo~ grit than glam-our, where men and women strugglewith the conflicting demands of love andIoy~y, and where one agen c s honormay seal another one s doom. Eddie Hoggart is a tough customer;brought up in foster homes, h,e showedenough promise in the army to be movedto the Intelligence Corps. From there, hemanaged to work his way up throughthe ranks of MI6. Fluent in Russiar~, hiscurrent task is to debrief a defector namedYakunin. Yakunin is adamant that there is a highlyplaced traitor within MI6, but he s equallystubborn about not revealing the man sidentity. What he knows is too big to tell,at least until Eddie can prove that he him-self is not an ally of the mole. And there axe other matters vying forEddie s attention; most important beingthe state of his marriage. From his ownbackground of abuse has risen the em-pathy that binds Eddie to Jacqui Love-grove, once a hooker, now his bride. Andhis love blinds him to the fact that hissweet, streetwise wife has become apawn of his masters... In DEEP PURPLE, Ted AIIbeury againdemonstrates his skill at combining sus-pense and sensitivity-creating a novelthat siowly, steadily, inexorably wrapsus up in its spell. |
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