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Counter-Measures #11
Birds of Passage
The Cold War is in full swing as the British Government, in partnership with Woden Armaments, launches the Cerberus satellites into orbit, transforming world wide communications.
But all is not as it seems. Retired Air Vice Marshal Ian Gilmore is reluctantly drawn into helping an embattled government. Despatched to a divided Germany, he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall as he helps a Soviet engineer with a terrible secret defect to the West.
Back home, Professor Rachel Jensen discovers her work at Cambridge has been perverted by Woden Armaments. When the Cerberus launch team, including Allison Williams and Anne Travers, goes missing, Rachel begins an investigation that unearths a terrible conspiracy at the heart of the British Establishment – a conspiracy that threatens the entire world!
But all is not as it seems. Retired Air Vice Marshal Ian Gilmore is reluctantly drawn into helping an embattled government. Despatched to a divided Germany, he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall as he helps a Soviet engineer with a terrible secret defect to the West.
Back home, Professor Rachel Jensen discovers her work at Cambridge has been perverted by Woden Armaments. When the Cerberus launch team, including Allison Williams and Anne Travers, goes missing, Rachel begins an investigation that unearths a terrible conspiracy at the heart of the British Establishment – a conspiracy that threatens the entire world!
215 pages, Paperback
First published January 4, 2022
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April 5, 2022
I love Roberts books. I look to his prose as an indicator as to how well I should write.
This is the first book in the Counter Measures series. Spinning off characters from Ben Aaronovitch’s Doctor Who Remembrance of the Daleks TV series. You don’t have to be a Who geek to enjoy Counter Measures or any of Roberts Lethbridge Stewart books, however.
It’s a tale of Cold War espionage. It’s deep government treachery that weaves in and out of the secondary plot regarding Star Wars satellites. The control mechanism the Cambridge satellite design team use is a brilliant use of a previous character too - but no spoilers here.
A thoroughly engrossing read, well executed. I look forward to Roberts next book, as always.
This is the first book in the Counter Measures series. Spinning off characters from Ben Aaronovitch’s Doctor Who Remembrance of the Daleks TV series. You don’t have to be a Who geek to enjoy Counter Measures or any of Roberts Lethbridge Stewart books, however.
It’s a tale of Cold War espionage. It’s deep government treachery that weaves in and out of the secondary plot regarding Star Wars satellites. The control mechanism the Cambridge satellite design team use is a brilliant use of a previous character too - but no spoilers here.
A thoroughly engrossing read, well executed. I look forward to Roberts next book, as always.
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