The Secretary
By Deborah Lawrenson
By Deborah Lawrenson
Publication Date: 28th February 2025
Publisher: The Book Guild
Page Length: 305
Page Length: 305
Genre: Historical Fiction / Thriller
Moscow, 1958.
At the height of the Cold War, secretary Lois Vale is on a deep-cover MI6 mission to identify a diplomatic traitor. She can trust only one man: Johann, a German journalist also working covertly for the British secret service. As the trail leads to Vienna and the Black Sea, Lois and Johann begin an affair but as love grows, so does the danger to Lois.
A tense Cold War spy story told from the perspective of a bright, young, working-class woman recruited to MI6 at a time when men were in charge of making history and women were expendable.
Praise
“The Secretary” by Deborah Lawrenson is an essential read for anyone who appreciates masterfully crafted thrillers. This captivating tale not only offers a fresh and unique perspective but also brilliantly illuminates the extraordinary lengths MI6 agents went to in their relentless pursuit of intelligence, all while deftly outsmarting the KGB.
This novel comes highly recommended.
Review by Mary Anne Yarde
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Deborah Lawrenson
Deborah Lawrenson spent her childhood moving around the world from Kuwait to China, Belgium, Luxembourg and Singapore with diplomatic service parents. She read English at Cambridge University and worked as a journalist in London. She is the author of nine novels, including the critically acclaimed The Art of Falling, which was a WHSmith Fresh Talent novel, and The Lantern, which was picked as a summer read for the Channel 4 TV Book Club in 2011. In October 2016, 300 Days of Sun was selected as one of the Great Group Reads for National Reading Group Month, run by the Women's National Book Association in the USA. The Secretary was inspired by her late mother's work for British intelligence. The 1958 diary she wrote at the height of the Cold War in Moscow provides authentic background details.
Deborah lives in Kent and spends as much time as possible at a crumbling hamlet in Provence, the atmospheric setting for The Lantern and two Death in Provence novels, co-written as Serena Kent.
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