353 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 1989 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.
A story of love, betrayal, and courage. At a small British trade fair in Moscow, a message of global importance is made up of three very fragile human links: a Soviet physicist burdened with a secret knowledge; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the source of the document.
I remember when genre novels had to be judged by a different standard than "regular" fiction. This book was (pardon the expression) awesome by any standard.
