Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
Former Soviet Secret Service agent Leo Demidov has built himself a new life as a civilian with his wife Raisa, and their two teenage daughters, Elena and Zoya. The Soviet Union is a country trying to reassert itself after the murderous excesses of Stalin and the chaos of the following years, and as the Cold War continues powers inside Russia seek to topple their great enemy, the United States of America. Communist allies within the United States will prove vital players in this game of intrigue and revolution. Raisa and their two daughters travel to the United States on a diplomatic mission, but a horrifying tragedy destroys everything Leo and Raisa have built. Leo must get to the States somehow and find out what happened. Exiled from the Soviet Union and separated from his family, Leo's quest takes him through the stark wilderness of Afghanistan, reawakening all his old instincts and forcing him to confront his demons. But whatever it costs, wherever he must go, he will find Agent 6.
'Smith is superb at evoking the day-to-day realities and bitter ironies of the cold war.. immaculately researched sections are individually pungent and powerful' Andrzej Lukowski , METRO 7/7 'It's an amazing story full of intrigue and espionage that you won't want to put down' Kim Metcalf, Essentials August Issue Praise for Agent 6 'Smith is superb at evoking the day-to-day realities and bitter ironies of the cold war... immaculately researched sections are individually pungent and powerful.' Andrzej Lukowski, Metro, 7 July 2011 'It's an amazing story full of intrigue and espionage that you won't want to put down.' Kim Metcalf, Essentials August Issue 'Smith remainsa brilliant depicter of the past' --John Dugdale, Sunday Times, 24 July 2011 'Tense and moving' 5 star review --Heat Magazine, 2 July 2011 'One of the most anticipated reads this summer, Demidov fans won't be disappointed' --Attitude, August Issue 'It is a deeply movig piece of work; even information dumps are shot through with emotion... Agent 6 is something far greater than a rank and file thriller' --BookGeek.co.uk
Tom Rob Smith was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and was brought up in London where he still lives. He graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and spent a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship. Tom has worked as a screenwriter for the past five years, including a six-month stint in Phnom Penh storylining Cambodia's first ever soap. His first novel, CHILD 44, was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best adventure/thriller novel of 2008, and the American edition won Best Debut at the International Thriller Awards and Best Debut at the Strand Magazine awards.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847375674 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847375677 |
| Title | Agent 6 |
| Author | Tom Rob Smith |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
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