Seven Steps to Treason

Sarah Cable #2

by Michael Hartland

Michael Hartland joins le Carre and Len Deighton as a master-hand." - BEST SELLERS
"A stunning display of diplomatic and undercover know-how, SAS dare-devilry and global double-cross." - THE SUNDAY TIMES
"Very good Indeed - a cross between le Carre without the longeurs and Adam Hall with intellect." - THE GUARDIAN
"Skilful pattern of kidnap, blackmail, double and quadruple crossing - a taut tale of treachery." - PUNCH
"Brilliant tale of espionage - a new master thriller writer." - WESTERN MORNING NEWS
"Kept me in goggle-eyed amazement... the plot skips around like gunfire on the ricochet." - LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Superior stuff - taut, well observed, original and civilized." - THE TIMES
"The women are not mere decoration; they are at the heart of the action." - THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"Suspense builds from start to finish... the author will rank alongside le Carre, Deighton, and Follett." - WEST COAST REVIEW OF BOOKS
VIENNA late 1980s - violence is breaking out in strife-torn Poland. A spark that could set the Soviet prison of Eastern Europe ablaze.
There are dangerous Western plans to ensure that the inevitable rising will not be a repeat of Hungary in 1956. In Moscow, faceless men and women know that Bill Cable, after years banished to diplomatic backwaters, is into something big - so big they will destroy him to get it. If they fail, this could mean the end for the Soviet Union. They've had a stranglehold on Cable ever since the tragedy, deep in the past, that led to him being kicked out of the Intelligence Service.
Now he is back, as British Ambassador in Vienna. Still compromised but, just to make sure, they kidnap his daughter, Sarah, and threaten her life. Will he betray her - or his country and the freedom of millions?

Genres: Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 5, 1979

About the author

Before taking up writing, Michael Hartland spent twenty years travelling widely in Europe and the Far East as a diplomat, then working in counter-terrorism and for the United Nations. He draws on this experience to describe the secret world of espionage with insight and great authenticity.

His first book DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN was a runaway bestseller and his ground-breaking series of espionage novels published in the 1980s and 90s established him as one of the leading thriller writers in Britain and the United Sates. They have been translated into twenty-seven European languages and Japanese, adapted for BBC Radio-4 and television - and remain among the most fast-moving and gripping ever published.

Michael Hartland and his family live in Devon, where he is working on a new project inspired by contemporary Islamic terrorism.

Reviews

[FP Legg]

Excellent

This was a riveting book. I enjoyed the storyline, it was credible and intriguing.
I would certainly recommend it and will look forward to reading another by this author.

[Bent Andreassen]

4 minus. Read in Norwegian.

[Mrs Sheila Goodayle]

Good read

Good read. Very realistic by using events which actually occurred. Description of countries helped in visualising the areas mentioned. X

[Quentin Feduchin]

Darned good read.

[Benjamin Dorighi]

Fun to read, intelligence agent diplomat slop, bad ending I think though. Unfufilling but the rest of the book was enjoyable

[Nev Thomas]

Good spy thriller