A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight, set in London and Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
Simon Smith, an ex-Army man with a gift for languages, is drafted in by a shady businessman to do some 'work' in the USSR. Simon thinks it'll be an easy job with an ample reward...but what with multiple murders, beautiful femmes fatale, and devious master criminals, it's not as simple as he'd hoped! Meanwhile, the Russian detectives set to trail a suspected thief have all their expectations confounded... A thrilling tale of international politics and police work on the other side of the 'Iron Curtain'.
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Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, (born 1931) became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. He has been writing since before 1963, when his first crime novel was published.
Since then, he has written about thirty books, including contemporary crime fiction, historical novels about Wales, biography, non-fiction popular works on forensic medicine, twelve medico-legal textbooks and the Crowner John Mysteries series of 12th-century historical mysteries.