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The Makeweight
- Title
- The Makeweight / Philip Davison.
- Author
- Davison, Philip, 1957-
- Publication
- Dublin, Ireland : Ely's Arch, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- 255 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "Jack Hinkley, the underachieving MI6 Station Head in Barcelona, is tired of watching the cable-car ply between the harbour and Montju̐c from his office window. But when a hijacked plane is forced to refuel at Barcelona, where it is successfully stormed, among the surviving passengers seen disembarking live on shaky long-focus television lenses are two KGB agents of interest. The natural order of things in the shadow world is suddenly out of kilter. So begins a run of close surveillance, kidnapping and coercion that ultimately leads to a hunt for a mole in London. Once again, our man, Jack, finds himself marginalised. Instead of sinking in the toxic inertia, he uses the time to help his brother get back on track, and to rebuild his relationship with his estranged wife. Then, in a street of cramped houses in Chelsea, somebody fires a shot at him. In the shadow world, lessons are learnt late - sometimes, too late. The Makeweight is a remarkable spy thriller from the 1980s, which will resonate with a new generation of readers, by a writer described by the Independent as "part le Carř, part Graham Greene". page 4 of cover
- Subject
- Great Britain. MI6 > Fiction
- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti > Fiction
- Great Britain. MI6
- Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
- Hijacking of aircraft > Spain > Barcelona > Fiction
- Moles (Spies) > England > London > Fiction
- Intelligence officers > Fiction
- Hijacking of aircraft
- Moles (Spies)
- Intelligence officers
- Spain > Barcelona
- Soviet Union
- England > London
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Spy fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFC 23-183
- ISBN
- 1912589346
- 9781912589340
- OCLC
- 1401053062
- Author
- Davison, Philip, 1957- author.
- Title
- The Makeweight / Philip Davison.
- Publisher
- Dublin, Ireland : Ely's Arch, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFC 23-183