Latest Amazon review of
The Prague Papers (e-book) from reader 'Sandbagger'.
Set during the Cold War behind the Iron Curtain in the mid- 1970s the
storyline follows the young, intriguing Tana Standish, a British secret
agent, who was orphaned and yet managed to survive the brutality and the
horrors of the Warsaw ghetto in WWII. She possesses a psychic ability
that gives her an advantage but occasionally appears to be something of
a double-edged sword.
Tana is called in to help repair the beleaguered
underground network in Czechoslovakia, who had been stymied after the
so-called Prague Spring, when the reformist First Secretary, Alexander
Dubček, well meaning attempts of reform were brought to heel seven
years earlier by the arrival of Soviet tanks.
This is a well-researched
novel with atmospheric descriptions of life under the yoke of Soviet
rule.
A real page turner. Highly recommended.
***
Many thanks, Sandbagger!
The follow-up is
The Tehran Text, set in Iran in 1978.
My apologies for not posting here regularly of late, but I'm moving towards the end of the third Tana Standish mission, set in Afghanistan in 1979:
The Khyber Chronicle.
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