Dance of Death

DCI David Fyfe #5

by William Paul

Attending a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet at the fiftieth anniversary International Edinburgh Festival, Mikhail Gorbachev is at the mercy of a killer among the people hired to guard him.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Born and brought up in the east of Scotland, William Paul is a former journalist who now earns a living in digital communications but reverts to old-fashioned reporting most weekends by covering rugby matches in both print and digital format.

He's been writing since an early age - somewhere in the attic is a picture of a fresh-faced youth with his first royalty cheque - and sees no reason to stop now.

He got married along the way, has two sons and grandson Aidan to cope with.

His ideas for books come at him from all angles and sometimes he finds it difficult to get all that stuff down on the page before it fades, morphs into something entirely different or simply vanishes from his unreliable memory. Wherever and however ideas end up - on the page or in the bin - they just keep coming.

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Reviews

[Andrea Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book 5 but relates to much earlier in Fyfe's career. It's a spy/ thriller/ crime procedural and very enjoyable. Post Glasnost and Gorbachev want to be seen abroad and seen as a leader of change which makes both the KGB and GRU suspicious. They've done all they can to keep him in Moscow but despite threats he wants to to travel. 2nd stop Edinburgh to see the Bolshoi and Fyfe is asked to help a Russian detective with an investigation into a possible assassin. This is his last case before a transfer to fraud for an easier life, his estranged wife, his mistress, his daughter and his alcohol consumption all play a part in how the investigation works out.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mikhail Gorbachov is visiting Edinburgh. Assigned to his security is Potapenko and D.I. David Fyfe. Will both succeed in thier assignments.
an enjoyable story
Originally published 1991