It is the third summer of perestroika. Barley Blair, London publisher, receives a smuggled document from Moscow. It contains technical information of overwhelming importance. But is it genuine? Is the author genuine? A plant? A madman? Blair, jazz-loving, drink-marinated, dishevelled, is hardly to the taste of the spymasters, yet he has to be used - sent to the Soviet Union to make contact. Katya, the Moscow intermediary, is beautiful, thoughtful, equally sceptical of all state ideology. Together, as the safe cliches of hostility disintegrate, they may represent the future - an idea that is anathema to the entrenched espionage professionals on both sides. The Russia House: a spy story, a love story, and a fable for our time.
- ISBN10 0743464664
- ISBN13 9780743464666
- Publish Date 20 January 2004 (first published 22 May 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Scribner Book Company
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 368
- Language English