Hammer to fall
Lawton, John, 1949-2020
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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.
Main title:
Hammer to fall / John Lawton.
Author:
Lawton, John, 1949-, author
Imprint:
London : Grove Press UK, 2020.
Collation:
352 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781611856354 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
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BRN:
2269249
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