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It''s London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange program to promote Britain abroad. Bored by his work, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money: smuggling vodka across the border into the USSR. He strikes a deal with old KGB pal Kostya, who explains to him there is a vodka shortage in the Soviet Union - but there is something fishy about Kostya''s sudden appearance in Finland and intelligence from London points to a connection to cobalt mining in the region, a critical component in the casing of the atomic bomb. Wilderness''s posting is getting more interesting by the minute, but more dangerous too.

Moving from the no-man''s-land of Cold War Finland to the wild days of the Prague Spring, and populated by old friends (including Inspector Troy) and old enemies alike, Hammer to Fall is a gripping tale of deception and skulduggery, of art and politics, a page-turning story of the always riveting life of the British spy.

Book details

• Full title: Hammer to Fall
• Author: John (Author) Lawton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9781611854725
• ISBN: 1611854725
• ID: 33481929
• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Weight: 280 g
• Dimensions: 128 × 197 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 2021

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