Former spy Jack McColl has just been sentenced to three years in jail
for assaulting a police officer. A few months later, his old boss, the
chief of the Secret Service, Mansfield Cummings, offers him a pardon if
he agrees to return to Russia to find out what his old nemesis, Aiden
Bradley, is doing there for MI5. McColl also wants to know if his
former lover, Caitlin Hanley, is still there.
It isn’t long before the Cheka are on McColl’s tail. As he was entering
Russia, he and his Russian host killed a Cheka agent and injured
another. Fortunately he is provided with a new identity, and a job as a
translator for a delegation from India.
Suddenly McColl finds himself on the way to Tashkent with Komarov,
deputy head of the Cheka and his former lover, Caitlin. How will he get
out of this entanglement? The way the train makes progress, it is
going to be a long trip. Shortly after leaving Tashkent, McColl comes
to the realisation that the Cheka know that he is a spy.
Will McColl come out of this alive, or will his plans be thwarted by
Caitlin or Komarov? Author David Downing’s thriller is just that, a
thriller, full of action and suspense. This book brings the Jack McColl
series to a conclusion. It was a very good series.
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