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Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer, to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him. Florry was an old school chum to Raines and had every reason to hate him. The British are not alone on Raines' trail. The ruthless Communist leader in Barcelona believes that the identity of the double agent conceals a powerful and profitable secret. It is a novel that constantly surprises.
Julian Raines was a renowned young poet who fled into the Spanish Civil War. Robert Florry was once Raines's friend. Now he is being blackmailed by British intelligence into hunting down his old friend in Spain. They say Julian has turned KGB. Now, Florry will find his old friend, unaware that a noose of espionage, psychological terror, and murder is being tightened around them by masters of the craft. National ads. HC: Crown.
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Dan Peters
reviewed Tapestry of Spies on July 30, 2014
Tapestry of Spies
This was much better than I expected. I was prepared to abandon it if it wasn't very good. I will have to read more early Stephen Hunter.
The story takes place mostly in Barcelona during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. The Nationalists led by General Franco and backed by Germany and Italy were trying to re-take the country from the Republicans which were comprised of a number of left wing groups from anarchists to Stalinists. The main characters are Robert Florry and Julian Raines, two Eton school chums who have fallen out but have both joined the International Brigade. Raines is thought by MI-6 to be a Russian spy and Florry is sent to Spain to kill him. Two other key people are Sylvia, a beautiful young British adventurer and Levitsky, a Trotskyite spymaster and chess champion. The main villain is an American ex-hitman who has become an enforcer for the Stalinists under an assumed name.
There are many twists and turns, sometimes confusing but almost always interesting. Things get sorted out in the end, of course, with even more surprises.
The further I got into the story the more I enjoyed it to the point I found it difficult to put the book down. I recommend it as not only a good spy story but also as a well done piece of historical fiction.
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