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The East German Spy Mistress By Natalia Pastukhova

Paperback published by Brown Dog Books 22nd September 2022

Pages 272

ISBN 9781839525087

It is 1955. An East German Girl agent a disillusioned man who hates pretty girls is sent to spy on a non-existent test in Cyrenaica. It is intended that he be caught. Ulrica, his boss, is busy smuggling stolen paintings and coins to the West in readiness to defect. A group of British Army and R.A.F. officers, aware of communist traitors in the Civil Service, devise a deception to draw them from their lairs. Every subterfuge miscarries. Ingenuity counts for nothing. No one foresees the outcome, yet everyone ends up with more or less the slice of the cake they deserve.

MY RANDOM FAVOURITE LINES FROM DIFFERENT PAGES.

He tried to muster a brief charm, which however soon evaporated to expose the raw physical bones of their contact.

Back upstairs Walther picked up a 1930’s Adventure novel from a shelf full of such books which had come with the room. She wore a brown skirt, a sift cream blouse and a neck chain of irregular brass links. She wore a brown skirt, a soft cream blouse and a neck chain of irregular brass links, Her hair was blonde and her face shrewd but not unfriendly.

This well-to-do twenty-three-year-old from Sussex, had in the spring been caught shoplifting. Before the magistrates she had worn a dog collar with a black skirt and blouse and clutching a Bible had claimed to be a Minster in The Idaho Immersionary Tabernacle.

It was allegedly a Tory M.P.’s secret love-nest. He tipped the polite baggage carrier with his only coin and relieved to be alone.

Would boys have kissed her in the churchyard?

Author Natalia Pastukhova was born in Saint Petersburg on the day it reacquired that name. She read English and Italian at university before joining the Russian security services and working abroad. She enjoys archery, writing, playing the violin badly and spending most of her time in England.