For the Good of the State
by Anthony Price
Audley/Butler: Publication order (16), David Audley / Jack Butler: Chronological Order (1985)
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Two KGB rivals, General Zarubin and Professor Nikolai Andrievich Panin, confront each other on a point overlooking the British Channel. Meanwhile, Henry Jaggard of British Intelligence has two pressing problems. He knows the Soviets are mounting a defensive program against a Polish dissident group in Britain, but he cannot intervene without jeopardizing his best inside agents. And Dr David Audley, of the Intelligence R&D Department, has been playing clever politics again. Jaggard sees his show more opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. The Professor has requested a meeting with Audley, his old adversary. And, with one of Jaggard's own men to abet him, Audley can be safely relied upon to overstep the mark in his attempts to frustrate the KGB ... show lessTags
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An espionage story steeped in history – British, Polish, Russian, a mix of all three –history I can’t comprehend. Sir Thomas Arkenshaw, a Baronet, medievalist and British intelligence officer, is tasked with minding David Audley while he meets with a KGB counterpart in remote Exmoor, England. Audley is from a competing department and Sir Thomas is supposed to report back to his boss, who wants to trip Audley up, under the guise of protecting him.
The internal politics of British intelligence are simple compared to the larger politics surrounding the meeting. The machinations of the KGB against the pro-Solidarity movement in Poland are what prompt the requested meeting. Everyone is plotting against everyone else, and Sir Thomas and show more Audley are caught up in it, but they’re no rubes themselves.
Extremely intelligent writing about the politics of espionage. I’m already searching for more of Anthony Price’s novels. show less
The internal politics of British intelligence are simple compared to the larger politics surrounding the meeting. The machinations of the KGB against the pro-Solidarity movement in Poland are what prompt the requested meeting. Everyone is plotting against everyone else, and Sir Thomas and show more Audley are caught up in it, but they’re no rubes themselves.
Extremely intelligent writing about the politics of espionage. I’m already searching for more of Anthony Price’s novels. show less
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- People/Characters
- David Audley; Jack Butler; Nikolai Andrievich Panin; Thomas Arkenshaw; Wilhemnia Groot; Henry Jaggard
- Dedication
- For Fiona Barling
- First words
- In the event, it was not Henry Jaggard himself but Garrod Harvey who connected the fate of the Department of Intelligence Research and Development with the projected British Museum Exhibition of the Treasures of Ancient Scyth... (show all)ia.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For the time being, he decided R and D was best left well alone, to its own devices.
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