This slim volume came out in the autumn and has been picked up so swiftly each time it arrives in the shop that we've hardly been able to keep it in stock...
The author must presumably be glad to have used an alias on reading Dominic Sandbrook's review in the Sunday Times. An interminable, banal and exploitative account of her two-year affair.
It seems the 'Mrs Burton' (born Ursula Kuczynski) who pedalled around the English countryside in 1942 was a colonel in the Red Army. Her life story is extraordinary.
The only woman to reach London from Warsaw during WW2, she was later parachuted back into Poland where she was deeply involved in the Uprising; she then disappeared into the Soviet prison sy... read more
Hayes' first novel since the huge bestseller I Am Pilgrim is about a CIA man in the badlands - the worstlands - of the North West Frontier region, where he encounters a vicious adversary.
An old spy is chased, a damning file appears from nowhere, a civil service enquiry is obstructed... Herron works his compusive magic again in this new stand-alone thriller.