A Loyal Traitor by Tim Glister
Duty or loyalty. Which would you choose?
It's 1966. London is swinging, and the Cold War is spiralling. Clear cut lines have faded to grey areas. Whispers of conspiracy are everywhere. Spies on both sides of the Iron Curtain are running in circles, in a deadly game of double-cross and subterfuge. And MI5 agent Richard Knox is tired of it all.
But when Abey Bennett, his CIA comrade in arms, appears in London with a ghost from Knox's past, and a terrifying warning that could tip the balance of power in the Cold War for ever, he has to fight to save the future. And face an agonising choice: who to trust and who to betray - his duty to his country or his loyalty to his friends?
About the author
Tim Glister grew up in Newcastle and now lives in London. An associate creative director in advertising, he's worked for a range of famous and infamous global brands, including eighteen months at the controversial political communications agency Cambridge Analytica in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential primaries. In a previous life he was a literary agent and a bookseller at Waterstones, Newcastle.
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Review
‘The Loyal Traitor’ was a complex, multifaceted plot that gripped, enticed and excited me as a reader right from the start! From the humid jungles of the Dominican Republic to the bright lights of London, this was an action-packed spy thriller that had me riveted.
This is the follow up to the first Richard Knox thriller ‘Red Corona’ but you can definitely read this one as a standalone! I haven't read the first one and I found that I wasn't missing any plot points etc. However, ‘Red Corona’ sounds so good I am going to make sure I read it soon!
What I really enjoyed about this book was how the author built layers of the narrative without you noticing and then when things started to click into place, you were suddenly wrong and it was something else altogether! I do love it when an author manages to surprise you as it means the book has been written expertly! The exploration of themes like growing old in the intelligence community was something I haven't read before and I was intrigued by this. When do you give up as a spy? Is there a retirement age?! Or are you just benched at your desk when you get past it?!
‘A Loyal Traitor’ is a mix of Le Carre and Killing Eve in my head and that is a good combination when you are writing a spy thriller! Plus the author gets all the historical details of the era correct and it helps create a realistic world for the reader. The inclusion of actual historical political and social figures helps make the story believable and feel true.
Let me know if you pick this one up!
