Red Star Rising

A Thriller

Brian Freemantle

Thomas Dunne Books

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“If Brian Freemantle isn’t the best writer of spy novels around, he’s certainly, along with John le Carré, in the top two....It doesn’t get much better than this.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
           The body of a murdered, tortured Russian has been found in Moscow, which isn’t unusual in the crime-ridden city. What is different is that this corpse is on the lawn of the British embassy.

            Eager to prevent an international incident, London dispatches veteran MI5 agent Charlie Muffin to investigate. Charlie is an old hand who recognizes that little has changed in the post--Soviet Union, most definitely not the espionage enmity between Russia, Britain, and America. The search for the identity of the murdered man enmeshes Charlie in what might be the biggest attempted espionage coup of his career.

            Being in Moscow has very personal implications for Charlie, too. It provides the opportunity for a re-union with his Russian wife, Natalia, and their young daughter, whom he had to abandon because of a hurried recall to the UK five years earlier. It's also the chance to persuade the reluctant Natalia, an officer in Russia’s FSB intelligence service, to return with him to London.

            Brian Freemantle has been hailed as a master of the spy novel. His books have sold millions of copies throughout the world, and now he returns with Red Star Rising, set in a modern-day Russia where the only thing that has changed about the KGB is its name.  

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CHARLIE MUFFIN DECIDED IT WAS A TOSS-UP BETWEEN THE British embassy’s third secretary or the Russian Foreign Ministry official who’d be the first to throw up or simply faint. Or messily do both, not necessarily in any order. Charlie didn’t feel that good himself. It had been a busy, largely sleepless forty-eight hours since his emergency London assigning, and he’d never liked mortuaries anyway. The unease wasn’t helped by a mortuary assistant four autopsy tables away, munching a meat-overflowing sandwich.

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“Freemantle…knows that the conflict at the heart of espionage fiction is not West versus East but individual versus organization. Charlie Muffin carries the individual’s colors as well as any character in the genre.”--Booklist

“Last seen in 2002’s Kings of Many Castles, working-class British spy Charlie Muffin once again proves that experience and intelligence (on the part of both author and hero) are at least as important as flying fists and explosions in the entertaining entry in Freemantle’s long-running series.”--Publishers Weekly

 

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“His thrillers . . . are both sleek and tough, filled with gritty characters and superb plotting.”

---Chicago Tribune

 

“Freemantle, certainly one of the top espionage writers today, may very well be one of the best of all time.”

---Booklist

 

“Impossible to put down . . . marvelous . . . real genius.”

---The Washington Post

 

“Wonderful. . . . . Freemantle holds the reader in his thrall with masterful, insightful writing.”

---Orlando Sentinel

 

“Praised as more than a match for John le Carré, Freemantle will not disappoint readers.”

---Library Journal

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Brian Freemantle

BRIAN FREEMANTLE is the author of eighty books, which have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. He has been foreign editor and chief foreign correspondent for the London Daily Mail and foreign correspondent for the London Daily Sketch, among others. He lives in England.

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Red Star Rising
A Thriller
Brian Freemantle

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St. Martin's Press
Thomas Dunne Books
August 2010
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ISBN: 9780312315535
ISBN10: 0312315538
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 384 pages
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