Sex, spies and scandal: the john vassall affair

In 2015, the veteran author, Frederick Forsyth, by then aged 76, unleashed his latest spellbinding adventure. The opening sentences of the latest volume from the man who had already produced such clas

A MODERN HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION

ADMISSIONS SHADOW WORK Loneliness and the literary ...

Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City ...

The year was 1987. The Soviet Union, under leader Mikhail Gorbachev, was approaching its final chapters. As if to catch the dying embers of the USSR, recently graduated pianist James Kirby left his li

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