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Red Star Burning: A Thriller
“If Brian Freemantle isn’t the best writer of spy novels around, he’s certainly, along with John le Carré, in the top two....It doesn’t get much better than this.” --The Philadelphia InquirerMI5 toleratesCharlie because he’s their best field agent. What no one knows is that he is married to Natalia Fedova, a colonel in the FSB, the Russian intelligence successor to the KGB...more
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published
June 19th 2012
by Thomas Dunne Books
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Charlie Muffin, British spy, has managed to keep secret from everyone his marriage to a Russian spy, and their daughter. He is hated by Russian intelligence for beating them at their own game on multiple occasions. On top of that, he is continually fighting for his professional life in the British secret service because of his tendency to break rules and do whatever is necessary for his missions and his survival, regardless of collateral damage to his supposed peers and colleagues. Now, starting...more
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“Red Star Burning” by Brian Freemantle, published by Thomas Dunne Books.
Category – Mystery/Thriller/Spy
Charlie Muffin, English Spy, is in protective custody. His wife, Natalia, a member of the Russian spy organization FSB, and his daughter, Sasha, are still in Russia.
MI5 and MI6 are working together, like that’s going to work, to bring out Maxim Radtsic and his family at the same time they plan to extract Natalia and Sasha.
Charlie doesn’t trust MI5 or MI6 and decides that he will extract his wif...more
Category – Mystery/Thriller/Spy
Charlie Muffin, English Spy, is in protective custody. His wife, Natalia, a member of the Russian spy organization FSB, and his daughter, Sasha, are still in Russia.
MI5 and MI6 are working together, like that’s going to work, to bring out Maxim Radtsic and his family at the same time they plan to extract Natalia and Sasha.
Charlie doesn’t trust MI5 or MI6 and decides that he will extract his wif...more
PROTAGONIST: Charlie Muffin, MI5 agent
SETTING: London; Russia
SERIES: #15 of 15; second in trilogy
RATING: 4.5
WHY: After a narrow escape from Russia, MI5 field agent Charlie Muffin is in protective custody. Unbeknownst to his employers, he is married to an agent in the Russian FSB, Natalia Fedova, who has contacted him to let him know that she may have been exposed. He escapes his protectors and goes to Russia to try to get Natalia and their daughter out. Unknowingly, he has stumbled into an extr...more
SETTING: London; Russia
SERIES: #15 of 15; second in trilogy
RATING: 4.5
WHY: After a narrow escape from Russia, MI5 field agent Charlie Muffin is in protective custody. Unbeknownst to his employers, he is married to an agent in the Russian FSB, Natalia Fedova, who has contacted him to let him know that she may have been exposed. He escapes his protectors and goes to Russia to try to get Natalia and their daughter out. Unknowingly, he has stumbled into an extr...more
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Aka John Maxwell, Jonathan Evans, Jack Winchester, Harry Asher and Richard Gant.
Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muff...more
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Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muff...more
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