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The Midnight Swimmer

The Midnight Swimmer

Wilson, Edward

Paperback

Series: William Catesby

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

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ISBN10: 1908129417
ISBN13: 9781908129413
Publisher: Maclehose Press Quercus
Published: Jul 1 2013
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A brilliant Cuban Missile Crisis spy thriller by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carré'

'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune

'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent

'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publishers Weekly

October, 1962. If the Cuban gamble goes wrong and war breaks out, Britain will no longer exist.

London dispatches a secret envoy to defuse the confrontation. Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it.

Loathed by the Americans and trusted by the Russians, Catesby is sent to Havana and Washington to make clandestine contacts. London has authorised Catesby to offer Moscow a secret deal to break the Cuban Missile Crisis deadlock. But before that can happen, Catesby meets the Midnight Swimmer who has a chilling message for Washington.

A triangle of love and death that began in Berlin ends in Cuba. On one corner is a war disabled KGB general, on another corner is his unfulfilled wife . . .

This sophisticated novel is full of twists and turns that merge historical fact with fiction. Sleaze and high politics literally share the same beds. A white-knuckle superpower standoff is played out against a backdrop of honey trap blackmail, Mafia contracts, assassinations and Vatican scandal.

'An intellectually commanding thriller' Independent

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