Tabatha's Code

by Matthew d'Ancona

Using all the expertise and knowledge gleaned from his political journalism, Matthew d'Ancona delivers a fast-paced thriller which takes the reader through a rollercoaster ride of global politics and personal betrayals. When Cambridge undergraduate Nick falls in love with an American student during a summer holiday in California, he fails to realize the far-reaching consequences this short but passionate affair will have on him. Years later, still haunted by memories and regrets, he continues to receive regular coded messages from the other side of the Atlantic. Is this a token of their ancient love, or is his Tabatha playing a much more dangerous game? As Nick is kidnapped by secret-service agents, his personal life spirals even further out of control, and he realizes he is just a pawn in the hands of obscure forces, and his former lover the head of a most dangerous network of anti-global terrorists.

400 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 1 out of 5]

c2006. My own little guidance system should have worked. There is nothing on the cover or the blurb to indicate what this particular book is all about. The blurb on the back actually refers to "Going East" and nothing whatsoever to do with this book and the library has classified this as a thriller. My rating may be a little unfair as I do not like the international espionage type books. Starting this book off with no idea of the plot - it is quite clear that the first 42 pages of the prologue give no indication of what the book is all about. Except of course for the dreaded plot device of the last line of the prologue "Neither of these names would mean anything to Nick by the time he saw Tab's face again, seventeen years later, a pistol at his head, on a mountainside in Italy." FCN: Tabatha, Nick, Munroe, Freddy, Topper.