A Dazzling Debut Spy Thriller Carved in Poison – by Matthew Brazil – SpyTalk

Sergei Lebedev s Untraceable also begins with a Russian state-sponsored assassination. But instead of England, the act occurs in an unnamed European country we ll only learn later. (Lebedev can be overly coy with such details.) But the weapon is of a contemporary sort: Instead of being shot on Hampstead Heath in the dead of night, the victim, a Russian émigré, is horribly dispatched in broad daylight by a chemical weapon before dozens in a crowded café. The scene is many times more explicit and awful than in most serious novels of espionage. It is also preceded by escalating tension and literary clues that leave the reader with little doubt of the émigré s inevitable fate but compels one ever forward.

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