Talking to Strange Men Book

A man yearns to win back his wife's love and wreak vengeance on her lover with the help of a secret ring of spies Dead drops, coded messages, and a safe house—it's all make-believe for a teenage spy ring. But when John Creevey intercepts the messages and believes them to be the work of a real crime syndicate, the spy games turn deadly serious in a fiery cocktail of obsession and revenge. Ruth Rendell expertly layers her narrative to reveal the grotesque truths behind her characters' ordinary lives.

Purloined code books, doublecrosses and defections. It is the stuff of sophisticated espionage. Only the undercover men are really schoolboys at play. But John Creevey does not know this when he intercepts their message, and soon the boys are playing much more than a game.