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The Envoy

The Envoy, Edward Wilson's second novel, will prove familiar territory for fans of A River in May. The setting is 1950s London, at the height of the Cold War. Kit Fournier is ostensibly a senior diplomat at the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, but is also CIA Chief of Station. This job and its secrets prove deadly and Kit faces a crisis of the soul as the threat of the H-bomb looms.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 274
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781905147700
  • Genres
  • fiction, espionage, thriller
  • Release date
  • 2008