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William Boyd
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Publisher | Bloomsbury | ||
ISBN | 0747589372 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.
Review
Restless I thought was going to be a book I could not get into but when at the end of the first chapter it seemed that something else was about to happen and exposed to stories within one book- I was hooked. William Boyd knows how to keep an audience on their toes and not be able to put his book down. I read it over a weekend to take me mind away from my own problems, it certainly did that and had me dreaming of subdifuge and secret service etc. I had no idea that things were devulged to the press and then expounded so that others would read them and twist them yet again.
What an eyeopener to what was behind the secret service in the last world war and beyond. I suppose as someone who has come through the service system I would never have expected all this to really happen.
I loved the twists and turns and although this book has been out since 2006 it was a great read and I will try and find more of his books to read as and when I can.
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