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Lenin's roller coaster

Title
Lenin's roller coaster / David Downing.
Author
Downing, David, 1946-
Publication
New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2017]

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Description
viii, 322 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"Autumn 1917: As a generation of Europe's young men perish on the Eastern and Western fronts, British spy Jack McColl is assigned a sabotage mission deep in the heart of Central Asia, where German influence is strong and where he'll be in completely unfamiliar territory. Despite his uncanny ear for foreign languages, there is much he doesn't know about the cities he's to infiltrate, or the people he's to meet there. As he quickly realizes, the mission only becomes more dangerous the closer he gets to its heart. Meanwhile, the woman he loves, Irish-American suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley, is in Bolshevik Russia, thrilled to have the chance to cover the Revolution. As the noose of anti-Russian government propaganda tightens around the American press, strangling the progressive and socialist workers' movements, the Russians seem to be making strides toward equality, women's rights, and real social change. Caitlin knows Moscow is where she is meant to be during this historic event--even if she is putting her own life at risk to bear witness. But four years of bloody war have taken their toll on all of Europe, and Jack and Caitlin's relationship may become another casualty. Caitlin's political convictions have always been for progress, feminism, and socialism--often diametrically opposed to the conservative goals of the British Empire Jack serves. Up until now, Jack and Caitlin have managed to set aside their allegiances and stay faithful to each other, but the stakes of their affair have risen too high. Can a revolutionary love a government spy? And if she does, will it cost one of them their lives? "--
Series Statement
A Jack McColl novel
Subject
  • Intelligence officers > Great Britain > Fiction
  • Women journalists > Great Britain > Fiction
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Fiction
  • Espionage, British > Fiction
  • FICTION / Espionage
  • FICTION / Historical
Genre/Form
  • Romantic suspense fiction.
  • Historical fiction.
  • Spy fiction.
Call Number
JFE 17-3871
ISBN
  • 9781616956042
  • 1616956046
LCCN
2016030515
OCLC
2016030515
Author
Downing, David, 1946- author.
Title
Lenin's roller coaster / David Downing.
Publisher
New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2017]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
A Jack McColl novel
Research Call Number
JFE 17-3871
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