On 10th September 1988, her two brothers took off from Turin in a Cessna to fly to Oxfordshire and join Harriet for her 40th birthday. Harriet Crawley’s approach to international intrigue may be old school, but it’s also highly readable, drawing as it does on her own family background in intelligence, and above all on an insider’s love of a wonderfully realised Moscow. The idea of making two interpreters the key protagonists came right at the very start, no doubt because I had spent hours grappling with impossible Russian grammar, and was addicted to the language, even though my Russian was far from perfect. Since the photos are old press photographs they may have scratches, lines, or other wears of time, which just underlines the authenticity and age of the photos.

A thriller must have something about it if it can survive being inspired by a policy paper written by the prime minister.Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad• A taut, highly topical thriller, set in Moscow and centred on a devastating Russian plot to sabotage the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. Between political lines and the tensions between countries, the book gives you such a great journey in a time that is dependant on the communications link to keep the countries running smoothly.

All our press photos are LIMITED ARCHIVE ORIGINALS - they are the actual prints that were used by the newspapers, they are not reprints or digital prints produced by us. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Five years later, he lost both his sons in a plane crash whilst they were travelling together to their sister's 40th birthday party, leaving young children and widows who were seven months pregnant.Her twin daughters are due to come home from university to celebrate her fiftieth birthday and one wants to bring a new boyfriend. Her fluency in French, German and Italian, a great help in the endeavour, was a legacy of a bohemian yet sophisticated education and an interesting background.

His paternal grandfather was George Baden Crawley (1833–1879), a successful railway contractor [13] and his wife Inez. Joining the interesting subgenre of post-sentence crime fiction, journalist T M Logan’s seventh novel follows first-person narrator Heather Vernon as she emerges from prison on licence, having served nine years for the murder of her husband, Liam. Now her licence conditions preclude her from having any contact with them or anyone who took part in the trial. My decision was made: I would step way outside my comfort zone and go for broke, set the novel in the present day, at the highest level of government, and make it a clash between the Kremlin and Downing Street. Jane Casey’s recurring characters DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent, who are fighting their shared inclination to be more than colleagues, are sent undercover to a suburban close to look for evidence of a peculiarly horrible crime.A genre-bending story that sustains the difficult balancing act of melding a love story with a tale of espionage in the process shedding light on what is happening in Russia today. He appeared on 'In the News' and 'Viewfinder' on BBC, and became Independent Television News's first editor-in-chief, but later rejoined the BBC. After serving on night patrols over the English Channel he was sent ostensibly as an assistant air attaché to Turkey in April 1940, cover for intelligence work in the Balkans in Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, being smuggled out of Sofia when the Germans invaded the latter country in March 1941.

He was a member of both of Britain's major political parties: the Labour Party and Conservative Party, and was elected to the House of Commons as a Labour MP from 1945 to 1951, and as a Conservative MP from 1962 to 1967. As usual, her interests dovetail with those of her friend and suitor, James Marwood, and they work together to identify the dead man and his killer. When Clive becomes privy to a potential attack on the undersea cables between the UK and the US, Marina may be able to gain intelligence on this operation, and defect to the UK.His services are needed urgently for a trip to Moscow to act as translator for the new firebrand PM, Martha Maitland, as she undertakes tricky talks with the Russian president Nikolai Serov. What are the odds that two lovers, running the Moscow marathon with the FSB on their backs, can save Western Europe from economic meltdown? This shows all the descendants of the Crawley-Boevey baronets, starting with the 2nd Baronet and his brothers.