Book description
Defectors come in two sorts and conditions. One sort is the plain dealer with a story to sell and the other is the false flag job. Hoggart and Fletcher are MI6 defector graders in the Cleveland Square safe house furnished with electronics. There they go to work on two very different Russians telling remarkably similar stories. Belinsky is the charmer, while Yakunin is the prickly man.
Find the Achilles heel is the name of the game. If Eddie Hoggart’s is the wife he almost rescued from the Soho sex industry, it seems British intelligence might have an even more dangerous link in its security chain.
Hoggart’s judgement may be getting cloudy, but unless both defectors are lying, the KGB have someone placed hazardously high in the echelons of MI6…
