An Improbable Spy by David Paul Collins
Thanks to Hannah Musgrave of HM Media, I am giving away one print copy of ‘An Improbable Spy by David Paul Collins.
Description An Improbable Spy by David Paul Collins
Tehran was well known to American businessman Jack Devlin until the day everything changed. When radical Islamic students stormed the US embassy on November 4, 1979, Jack narrowly escaped the revolutionary chaos, leaving behind 80 percent of his business and 100 percent of his heart.
To get his beautiful girlfriend, Farideh, out of Iran, Jack accepts a devil’s bargain with the CIA and MI6. He must slip back into Tehran, where the militant students are holding dozens of Americans hostage in their own embassy. His part of the bargain is to steal the coveted client ledger of the world’s most powerful arms dealer, Mustafa Khaki, Farideh’s father. Surprised by an additional assignment, Jack is also ordered to strip a KGB defector of details on Russian collusion with Iran and their plan to eliminate the American hostages while infiltrating the highest levels of Ayatollah Khomeini’s government.
From the damp cellars of KGB headquarters to the cold chill of British espionage to the blistering heat of the Kuwaiti desert, readers will learn, in an erroneous twist, that not all the turncoats are Russians.
Praise An Improbable Spy by David Paul Collins
“This riveting spy thriller about an American merchant banker drawn into a world of espionage where no one can be trusted is one not to be missed.
The settings ring with authenticity. Collins’s descriptions of bazaars, street scenes, customs officials, and hotels in Tehran, Kuwait, and Egypt, and roadblocks manned by soldiers leading boys with AK-47’s, are vivid enough to convince anyone who has been in the Third World for any length of time that the author has been there, and not as a tourist.
… this is a brilliantly written espionage tale-as good as it gets.”- Blue Ink, Notable Review
“David Paul Collins’s timely historical spy novel An Improbable Spy has all the elements of a classic Cold War-era tale, as the CIA goes against the KGB, but with a Middle Eastern twist.
The story begins with a chill on the streets of Moscow in 1980. KGB agent Vladimir Sudakov, who has information about Soviet machinations involving the American hostages in Iran, is about to betray his country on a metro platform, beneath the gaze of a mosaic of Lenin. In London, Jack Devlin, the owner of a struggling merchant banking business in Kuwait, is approached with a business proposition: his old friend Hugh, who’s now a CIA agent, will help Devlin sneak his love interest and her sister out of Tehran in exchange for an arms trafficker’s ledger.
Its people, plot, and places resonant, An Improbable Spy is a cryptic thriller: nothing is as it seems, and no one is who they say they are.”- Clarion Foreword Reviews
About David Paul Collins
David Paul Collins’ writing draws on his years of experience as an international merchant banker in Europe, Africa, and the mysterious Middle East. Virtually every character or situation fictionalized in his writing represents a real person or an actual incident; a clandestine pact or a coveted government secret revealed. The 15-year-old boy in Shanghaied on an African ship is a true story, the author was that 15-year-old boy. The KGB spy we meet in An Improbable Spy became David’s friend. Leah, the special needs girl he rescued from Tehran at the height of the Islamic revolution recovered in a hospital in London where she later made her home. His award-winning books are fictionalized representations of an exciting life.
Website: https://davidpaulcollins.com/
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Giveaway An Improbable Spy by David Paul Collins
This giveaway is open to the U.S. only for print and international for ebook and ends on December 18, 2020 midnight pacific time. Entries are accepted via Rafflecopter only.
