Berlin, 1963. East End-Londoner turned spy Joe Wilderness has had
better days. He is sitting in a West Berlin jail, arrested for
shooting someone he thought was about to kill him. His old boss,
Lieutenant Burne-Jones of MI6, comes to Berlin to free him, but
only under the condition that he rejoin British Intelligence. The
knowledge that Wilderness gained of Berlin's underworld while
working the black market just after World War II will prove useful
to Queen and country now that the city has become the epicenter of
the Cold War, dividing the world in two with its wall. On the other
side of the Iron Curtain, another MI6 man, Geoffrey Masefield, is
ruing the day he first agreed to be a spy. In the beginning, it had
all seemed so simple, so glamorous: the international travel, the
top secret files, the vodka, the women. . . . But now Masefield is
stuck in Lubyanka, the KGB's Moscow prison, waiting for a lifeline
from his former employer. Meanwhile, over in England, a Russian spy
is pining for his homeland. Having lived as Bernard Forbes Campbell
Alleyn for years and taken a wife and had two daughters under that
alias, he's now been exposed as KGB Captain Leonid Liubimov.
Arrested for treason and then for espionage, he is in prison at
Wormwood Scrubs, London. The only ticket out for these two men is a
spy exchange. Posted back to Berlin, Wilderness is to oversee the
exchange of Masefield and Liubimov, but his black market nous
hasn't diminished. There's money to be made and ten thousand
bottles of fine Bordeaux that Wilderness hasn't forgotten about. A
brilliantly evocative novel from a writer regularly compared to
John le Carre, The Unfortunate Englishman is a gripping tale of
Cold War espionage, and the best laid plans of unfortunate men.
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