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Sam McCready is 'The Deceiver', one
of the Secret Intelligence Service's
most unorthodox and most valued
operatives, a legend in his own time' But
after seven years in charge of the Dee-
Dee Desk (Deception, Disinformation
and Psychological Operations) Sam has
made some enemies. The end of the Cold
War has strengthened the hand of the
career mandarins in Whitehall to whom
he seems about as controllable as
Genghis Khan. Having spurned the usual
'non-job' offers, he elects to have his fate
decided at a special hearing chaired by
Deputy Chief of SIS, Timothy Edwards.
In the course of the hearing, four of
Sam's key operations are reviewed' The
first concern his clandestine mission into
East Germany in 1985 to trace his'
German-born agent who has had a
complete nervous breakdown. Then in
1986, KGB Colonel Orlov slipped away
from a war game on Salisbury Plain and
insisted on giving himself up to the CIA’s
London station. In due course McCready
had-to be brought in, partly to smooth
over the friction between London and
Washington but more importantly to help
Answer the question: was Orlov genuine?
The third case involves an audacious
Qaddafi-inspired plot to ship arms to the
IRA in revenge for his near-assassination
in the American bomber raid from
Britain in April 1986. And finally there is
the case that is still fixed in all their
minds, when McCreadY Presided over
the aftermath of political murder and
mahem in a small northern Caribbean
island. Timothy Edwards had had to
clear that one up after McCready had
come home a hero.
Following the worldwide triumph of his
recent novel, The Negotiator, the master
returns with a keenly perceptive picture
of British Intelligence in the eighties. as
seen in four thrilling cases that will decide
the future of one of his most memorable
characters - Sam McCreadY, 'The
Deceiver'.
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