Red Star Falling: A Thriller (Charlie Muffin Thrillers)

Red Star Falling: A Thriller (Charlie Muffin Thrillers) by Freemantle, Brian. hardcover edition. ISBN: 8601416276342.

"If Brian Freemantle isnt the best writer of spy novels around, hes certainly, along with John le Carré, in the top two. . . . It doesnt get much better than this." ---The Philadelphia Inquirer In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by the FSB, Russias intelligence-service successor to the infamous KGB. Charlie is Russias long-term target in British counter-intelligence, and Moscow is determined to extract, by whatever means necessary, every secret of British---and Western---espionage over Charlies thirty-year career. Charlies determined not only to resist the interrogation but to learn from it if his Russian intelligence-officer wife and their daughter escaped the trap that snared him and have reached England. He embarks on a cat-and-mouse battle of deception to convince his interrogators that theyre learning what they want---or think they want---aware that one misspoken word could be fatal. Thats not Charlies only problem. Hes also trying to work out how his escape was foiled. It could not have been only due to the FSB, or his wife and daughter would have been caught as well. His MI5 boss doesnt think it was, either, and suspects treachery by Britains external intelligence organization, MI6. To help discover the truth, Natalia, Charlies wife, uses all the Russian tradecraft shes ever learned to help save her husband. Red Star Falling---the third in the Red Star trilogy---continues the acclaimed series that has established Brian Freemantle as one of the worlds most ingenious espionage writers.