Carnival of Spies
Book Details
Author(s)Robert Moss
PublisherEndeavour Press
ISBN / ASINB00T7R1B4Q
ISBN-13978B00T7R1B46
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Rio De Janeiro,1936.
An exotic city is celebrating the Carnival with extravagance and abandon.
But the country is in the midst of one of the century's most daring attempts at revolution.
Johnny Lentz has been fighting for Communism his whole life.
Now a disenchanted soldier of the Left, he is caught between rival agents and two sisters whose urgent passions could betray him.
He plans to engineer a violent coup in the name of Communism — as a double agent for British Intelligence.
What will happen to Johnny in the midst of the Brazilian terror?
Will he survive this Carnival of Spies…?
“bagging Russians is the dream of every armchair spy, and this novel by the author of Moscow Rules provides many targets richly deserving such a fate...the pace is brisk, development is fast, and we are served many doses of local colour...†—The New York Times Book Review
“Moss (Moscow Rules) has done excellent research, using such historical incidents as a little-known communist uprising in Brazil during the '30s to great effect, and his gritty descriptions offer vivid glimpses of different cultures....An absorbing read.†- Publishers Weekly
“A romantic plot reminiscent of John Buchan . . . The most believable characters are those whose souls barely cover their secrets. . . . Even the minor characters are sharply drawn. . . . Carnival of Spies is an enjoyable romp through a long-lost era. . . .†—The Wall Street Journal
“snaps, crackles and pops with crosses and double-crosses...all over the globe†—New York Daily News
Robert Moss is a prize-winning journalist and former Editor of ‘Foreign Report’, the influential intelligence bulletin of ‘The Economist’. A recognized authority on espionage and terrorism, Moss was the first to reveal the Bulgarian involvement in the attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II, in testimony to the U.S. Senate in June, 1981. He has interviewed most of the important Soviet Bloc intelligence defectors and has covered wars and revolutions all over the world.
Endeavour Press is the UK’s leading independent publisher of digital books.
An exotic city is celebrating the Carnival with extravagance and abandon.
But the country is in the midst of one of the century's most daring attempts at revolution.
Johnny Lentz has been fighting for Communism his whole life.
Now a disenchanted soldier of the Left, he is caught between rival agents and two sisters whose urgent passions could betray him.
He plans to engineer a violent coup in the name of Communism — as a double agent for British Intelligence.
What will happen to Johnny in the midst of the Brazilian terror?
Will he survive this Carnival of Spies…?
“bagging Russians is the dream of every armchair spy, and this novel by the author of Moscow Rules provides many targets richly deserving such a fate...the pace is brisk, development is fast, and we are served many doses of local colour...†—The New York Times Book Review
“Moss (Moscow Rules) has done excellent research, using such historical incidents as a little-known communist uprising in Brazil during the '30s to great effect, and his gritty descriptions offer vivid glimpses of different cultures....An absorbing read.†- Publishers Weekly
“A romantic plot reminiscent of John Buchan . . . The most believable characters are those whose souls barely cover their secrets. . . . Even the minor characters are sharply drawn. . . . Carnival of Spies is an enjoyable romp through a long-lost era. . . .†—The Wall Street Journal
“snaps, crackles and pops with crosses and double-crosses...all over the globe†—New York Daily News
Robert Moss is a prize-winning journalist and former Editor of ‘Foreign Report’, the influential intelligence bulletin of ‘The Economist’. A recognized authority on espionage and terrorism, Moss was the first to reveal the Bulgarian involvement in the attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II, in testimony to the U.S. Senate in June, 1981. He has interviewed most of the important Soviet Bloc intelligence defectors and has covered wars and revolutions all over the world.
Endeavour Press is the UK’s leading independent publisher of digital books.
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