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Tom Rob Smith’s debut novel, Child 44, was a considerable success (the youthful Smith began to collect book award nominations by the bushel, before finally bagging the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for 2008). That book’s successor, The Secret Speech, featured the second appearance of the beleaguered former MGB officer Leo Dormidov. Hopes were high for the final volume in the trilogy – and here is Agent 6, the final outing for Leo. So does it satisfactorily conclude the sequence?In the last book, the time was 1956; Stalin had died, and it was the time of Nikita Khrushchev’s revisionist pronouncements (such as the ‘secret speech’ of the title, in which the Stalinist regime was – for the first time – roundly denounced). Leo Dormidov, his wife Raisa and their daughters are in mortal danger again, because of the new public view of the police as criminals; Leo’s efforts to save his family plunged him into situations of fear and tension. Both books were novel of striking authority (despite the controversial stylistic notion of putting all speech in italics, so that everything appeared over-emphasised). Agent 6, the third and final outing for the conflicted former MGB officer, brings the trilogy of novels to a resounding climax. Leo’s new civilian life with his wife Raisa and his family has acquired equilibrium, but the USSR and the US are still bitter enemies. A visit to the states by Leo on a diplomatic mission has a tragic outcome, and Leo loses everything. Only the grim plains of Afghanistan offer him a way back – or death. Tom Rob Smith has utilised cinematic technique here (not to mention upping the number of suspenseful set pieces), and some will prefer the more complex character building of the first book (still the finest in the sequence), but for most readers this final Leo Dormidov novel will push all the requisite buttons. --Barry ForshawRead More

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    Agent 6 The hotly anticipated follow-up to Tom Rob Smith's widely celebrated, Booker-longlisted debut novel Child 44 and The Secret Speech Full description

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    Former Soviet Secret Service agent Leo Demidov has built himself a new life as a civilian with his wife Raisa and their two teenage daughters Elena and Zoya. The Soviet Union is a country trying to reassert itself after the murderous excesses of Stalin and the chaos of the following years and as the Cold War continues powers inside Russia seek to topple their great enemy the United States of America. Communist allies within the United States will prove vital players in this game of intrigue and revolution. Raisa and their two daughters travel to the United States on a diplomatic mission but a horrifying tragedy destroys everything Leo and Raisa have built. Leo must get to the States somehow and find out what happened. Exiled from the Soviet Union and separated from his family Leo's quest takes him through the stark wilderness of Afghanistan reawakening all his old instincts and forcing him to confront his demons. But whatever it costs wherever he must go he will find Agent 6.

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    The final instalment in a debut trilogy from Tom Rob Smith, an author with a burgeoning reputation for producing engrossing crime fiction, Agent 6 sees former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov exiled from the Soviet Union and separated from his family ? all in the search of Agent 6. A moving and captivating conclusion to a debut series that included the highly acclaimed Child 44 and superb follow-up The Secret Speech, this edgy and action-packed hardback edition is a further example of Smith?s incredible ability to combine narrative tension and psychological insight.

  • Blackwell

    The hotly anticipated follow-up to Tom Rob Smith's widely celebrated, Booker-longlisted debut novel Child 44 and The Secret Speech Former Soviet Secret Service agent Leo Demidov has built himself a new life as a civilian with his wife Raisa...

  • 1847375677
  • 9781847375674
  • Tom Rob Smith
  • 7 July 2011
  • Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 560
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