Diplomats, Spies and Assassins. Stories of a Peripatetic Life

Книга "Diplomats, Spies and Assassins. Stories of a Peripatetic Life". Diplomats, Spies and Assassins is a book of seventeen short stories. The stories take us into Africa, Pakistan, Europe, South America and Japan, over a period of forty years. We encounter many of the same characters in the different stories, as they follow their chosen [link] of the stories focus on the competitive relationship between Arthur Deane, an MI6 officer, and George Stanca, a senior Securitate state security officer in Ceaucescu's dark Romania. The two also clash in their private lives, as they compete for the affections of an attractive Japanese diplomat, leading to a bitter rivalry which almost costs them their [link] follow the career of Alan Parsons, a British diplomat, from his first faltering steps in Africa, to his development into a confident and competent [link] Morden, an MI6 high flyer, suffers personal tragedy as she progresses to the senior levels of the Service, and finds personal contentm...