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Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow
Paul Willetts
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Description for Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow
Paperback. An engrossing real-life WW2 espionage thriller, perfect for fans of Ben Macintyre. Num Pages: 496 pages, 2x 8pp. plate sections (colour & b+w). BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 420.
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II. This dramatic yet little-known saga, replete with telephone taps, kidnappings, and police surveillance, centres on the furtive escapades of Tyler Kent, a handsome, womanising 28-year-old Ivy League graduate, who doubles as a US Embassy code clerk and Soviet agent. Against the backdrop of London high society during the so-called Phoney War, Kent's life intersects with the lives of the book's two other memorably flamboyant protagonists. One ... Read more
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading American newspaper as the greatest spy story of World War II. This dramatic yet little-known saga, replete with telephone taps, kidnappings, and police surveillance, centres on the furtive escapades of Tyler Kent, a handsome, womanising 28-year-old Ivy League graduate, who doubles as a US Embassy code clerk and Soviet agent. Against the backdrop of London high society during the so-called Phoney War, Kent's life intersects with the lives of the book's two other memorably flamboyant protagonists. One ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472119872
SKU
V9781472119872
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About Paul Willetts
Paul Willetts made his literary debut in 2003 with Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia, a biography of the bohemian writer and dandy, Julian Maclaren-Ross. His second book was North Soho 999: A True Story of Gangs and Gun-crime in 1940s Soho, a narrative non-fiction police procedural. He is also the author of Members Only, a life of Paul Raymond, which ... Read more
Reviews for Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow
Researched with almost breathtaking depth and ingenuity, this is a compelling story of swirling political and personal cross-currents at the time of our gravest national danger.