Brilliantly evocative of the insidiousness, paranoia and mistrust of the Soviet period. A thrilling read
-- Charlotte Philby
We all start out from Graham Greeneland - the journey across it, even out of it, is what matters.
Sarah Armstrong cuts her own path ... an enviable talent for location and detail. She may be new to spy-noir but I think the master himself would endorse The Starlings of Bucharest - an enthralling Greeneland tale of an innocent young man out of his depth in a cold, cold war.
-- John Lawton
The prose is beguiling - Alice Munro meets John le Carre.
-- Fiona Erskine
'A mesmerising, evocative novel in which characterisation and narrative tension are in perfect balance.'
-- Barry Forshaw