Goodbye to an Old Friend Author:Brian Freemantle At the height of the Cold War, a British secret service agent investigates a Russian defector with a deadly secret — Adrian Dodds is a man without hobbies, friends, or family, who works a very peculiar job. Though he looks like a pencil pusher, he works for the Secret Service, and in his own quiet, bureaucratic way, Dodds is vital to the security... more » of the United Kingdom. His latest assignment is debriefing Viktor Pavel, a Soviet aeronautics genius who escapes his handlers during a summit in Paris to become the Cold War's most high-profile defector.
Can he be trusted, or was he sent over as part of an elaborate Russian ruse? The truth is more complex than Dodds can imagine. « less