Jennifer W. (JWilson) reviewed The Private Sector (Collier Spymasters Series) on + 73 more book reviews
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"You know what it's like in Cairo - every shoeshine boy is in someone's pay. They'd be on to me pretty quick. And they must be looking for you - they went straight to your house after all. I thought we'd been over all this."
"What, then? Is there no one else here we can contact? Get a message to London? I mean, there are three of us. I'm not important, but you are and Handy must be. Don't you think London has any interest in getting us back?"
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In the shadowy world of Cairo, just weeks before the Six-Day war with Israel, agent Peter Marlow is a deft operator. He moves slyly between British and Egyptian intelligence branches in an attempt to find his fellow agent and friend, Henry Edwards, whose mysterious disappearance from London has sent a raft of suspicions coursing through Marlow's mind. He also wonders whether his pursuit will lead him close to his estranged wife, Bridget, who has recently been Edward's lover and co-agent. Perplexed and frightened when he finally discovers Edwrd's trail, Marlow is also implicated in a futile plot to assassinate President Nasser. Credible and dramatic, this is a story in which the worlds of espionage and the private lives of men and women are juxtaposed; this is a story of a mission that can only succeed if none of the operatives returns.
"What, then? Is there no one else here we can contact? Get a message to London? I mean, there are three of us. I'm not important, but you are and Handy must be. Don't you think London has any interest in getting us back?"
****
In the shadowy world of Cairo, just weeks before the Six-Day war with Israel, agent Peter Marlow is a deft operator. He moves slyly between British and Egyptian intelligence branches in an attempt to find his fellow agent and friend, Henry Edwards, whose mysterious disappearance from London has sent a raft of suspicions coursing through Marlow's mind. He also wonders whether his pursuit will lead him close to his estranged wife, Bridget, who has recently been Edward's lover and co-agent. Perplexed and frightened when he finally discovers Edwrd's trail, Marlow is also implicated in a futile plot to assassinate President Nasser. Credible and dramatic, this is a story in which the worlds of espionage and the private lives of men and women are juxtaposed; this is a story of a mission that can only succeed if none of the operatives returns.
