John Trenhaile 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Called Kyril, A View from the Square, Nocturne for the General)

Titles in This Set : The Man Called KyrilA View from the SquareNocturne for the General Condition : BRAND NEWFormat : PaperbackISBN : 9789124199593 The Man Called KyrilA double agent is leaking crucial Soviet secrets to London from the heart of Moscow. He must be stopped before the leak becomes a full, raging meltdown.The KGB director turns to Ivan Bucharensky - codename Kyril - to smoke him out.Kyril becomes live bait for both sides. The British think he's a double agent. The Russians in London know Kyril must die. The mole thinks Kyril suspects his identity.Hunted by East and West, only when the last traitor dies will Kyril know who's won the deadliest game ever played... A View from the SquareStepan Povin, the KGB's chief of foreign intelligence, is the West's most prized intelligence agent. For years he has been passing secrets from the heart of the KGB. Now he wants out, and is seeking asylum in the West.In exchange he has a stunning piece of information to offer: the Soviets are about to capture a sophisticated American spy plane that is so crucial to America's defence she will risk nuclear war to keep its secrets safe... Nocturne for the GeneralIn a Soviet prison camp near Murmansk is an old man, bowed but not broken, identified only by a number. Were his name known, his fellow inmates would kill him.For this old man is Stepan Povin, former KGB general, now disgraced but kept alive for the sake of the secret that he has retained through two years of interrogation. Povin's secret is the final link in a chain, the completion of which would make his former masters very happy indeed - a secret which draws British Intelligence ever closer to the camp in the Arctic Circle... About The Author : After a successful career as a Chancery barrister (speciality: death and its tiresome financial consequences) John Trenhaile published twelve novels on both sides of the Atlantic. They were translated into twenty languages. One of them – The Man Called Kyril – was made into a film for TV. All his books were recently repackaged and republished by Hodder.At the start of his literary career he explored the KGB from the inside before going on to do the same for the Chinese Secret Service in a second trilogy. From there he branched out to explore the grim worlds of terrorism, traitors and serial killers.After leaving the bar in order to write John travelled extensively, working for the Taiwanese government as editor and journalist, until he retired in 2001. Thereafter he divided his time between England and Sabah in East Malaysia, until in 2012 he moved to the poorest part of rural north-east Thailand where he became a Buddhist, learned how to speak and read Thai (‘good enough to get into trouble, not good enough to get out’), taught at a local school and for the first time in his life observed deprivation up close and personal.He is currently working on a non-fiction account of his experiences in Thailand structured around the teasing interactions between Buddhism’s sublime goal of Nirvana and the gritty realities that have to be surmounted on the way.