Reunion

by Tim Stevens

Cologne, 1974. East Germany's most celebrated opera diva, the Butterfly, is giving a rare performance in the West. The head of the British Secret Service intends to help her defect, and thereby pull off one of the biggest propaganda coups of the Cold War.


Except the Butterfly is a KGB agent, and her 'defection' is designed to infiltrate her into the highest levels of British Intelligence. The Service's deputy head knows this, and sends Michael Reece, a veteran agent, to stop her from coming across. But Reece finds himself up against a figure from his past who had a profound influence on the man he is today.


And not necessarily in a positive way...


From the author of Ratcatcher, Reunion is a 20,000-word novella which is at the same time a nailbitingly tense spy mystery about fear, betrayal and the moral murkiness of Cold War politics, and a psychological suspense story exploring the potentially far-reaching consequences of childhood enmity.

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First published May 31, 2012

About the author

I'm British born but grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. Currently I live near London with my wife and daughters, where I work as a doctor in the National Health Service. Ratcatcher is my debut novel.

My blog, Thrillhound, is here:

http://timstevensblog.wordpress.com/

Reviews

[Trevor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick spy thriller, that tells the story by jumping between a few time lines. The present tells the story of the mission, an agent trying to stop a defection, with flash backs to his past. The final time line is set a few days in the future. This is a nice read, with a few twists, can be a bit confusing in places due to timelines.