Disorderly Elements

Theres a recession on, you know. With an unemployed son and a baby on the way, those are not words that Michael Wyman wants to hear, particularly not from his employers -- the university where hes a professor of philosophy or the British secret service for which hes worked for 30 years. And he most particularly doesnt want to hear them from both employers at once, accompanied by the information that hes being laid off without a pension. Happily, a miracle is at hand, in the form of a Communist spy burrowed deep into the highest reaches of British intelligence. An East German defector can identify the spy, thus safeguarding national security and protecting the government from crippling embarrassment. He is willing to give up the information, but only to one man. At fifty-six years old, Wyman has one last chance to get back in the game . . . and get out on his own terms. Delightful and clever, with a fast-moving plot, extremely witty dialogue, and a style that combined the best of espionage fiction with a sting of classic proportions Library Journal Witty, irreverent, and tremendously amusing Liverpool Echo (UK) Spy fiction has a splendid new recruit The Observer (UK)