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Description for The Oligarch
Paperback. A riveting, intelligent spy-mystery set in London and France involving the Russian President, drawn on the secret-service knowledge of former high-ranking diplomat Joseph Clyde. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
Meet Arshile Grekov. A Russian oligarch, he lives in Holland Park, London, as a recluse in exceptional opulence after successfully extricating his gigantic fortune from Russia. He is deeply worried. His doctors are confounded by his slowly failing health and then there is his beloved son, a loud, druggy, dissolute Etonian secretly involved with a white-Russian princess. As a former spy in Russia's elite military secret service, he knows he will always remain of intense interest to the paranoid Russian government. When Grekov's private security force is infiltrated by a potential spy, he turns to former MI5 agent Tony Underwood ... Read more
Meet Arshile Grekov. A Russian oligarch, he lives in Holland Park, London, as a recluse in exceptional opulence after successfully extricating his gigantic fortune from Russia. He is deeply worried. His doctors are confounded by his slowly failing health and then there is his beloved son, a loud, druggy, dissolute Etonian secretly involved with a white-Russian princess. As a former spy in Russia's elite military secret service, he knows he will always remain of intense interest to the paranoid Russian government. When Grekov's private security force is infiltrated by a potential spy, he turns to former MI5 agent Tony Underwood ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Gibson Square Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908096715
SKU
V9781908096715
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Joseph Clyde
A Former high-ranking British diplomat in the foreign office and government minister, Joseph Clyde turned to writing thrillers to tell stories based on his in-depth knowledge of the intelligence services in Britain and Russia. His first Tony Underwood novel, A State of Fear, is based on real facts of a little-known dirty-bomb attack on London.
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