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The Memory Trap (Murder Room Book 695) Kindle Edition

by Anthony Price (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
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By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory

Even in the era of glasnost a defector is worth having, especially if he is a senior computer specialist in Russian military intelligence. But when the defection goes wrong, the British are left with three bodies and two inadequate clues to the nature of the information they might have been offered, and which now lies buried somewhere in the collective memories of David Audley and his one-time colleague Major Peter Richardson.

But what is the secret Audley shares with the half-Italian Richardson, now frightened into hiding somewhere in Italy? For once David Audley has no idea and the race is on to find the elusive Major. But Audley's objective is fast being overtaken by modern political imperatives - ones very different from the black and white certainties of the old Cold War days . . .

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    The Murder Room
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    September 6, 2012
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GU3AJ6Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Murder Room; UK ed. edition (September 6, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 590 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

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James M Lawther
5.0 out of 5 stars The Memory Trap
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2013
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The Gorbachev era had come. Mutual Assured Destruction, so long the terrible threat over the whole world, seemed less acutely present. The time had come for talking about reconciliations, and England-Soviet talks were imminent. But in the Soviet Union an ugly secret showed signs of leakage. A defection from Soviet Military Intelligence, the old GRU, had barely been forestalled. A British Intelligence man had been killed, with the possibility that clues to the secret existed, evidence that, properly evaluated, might give the secret away. Price's long time protagonist, Dr. David Longsdon Audley, hastily recalled from a Washington assignment for his British Intelligence agency, is given the task of resolving the matter. Who'd have thought that the peaceful countryside of the Cotswalds could hold the terrible secret and could nearly become a killing-grounds and a barrier to the all-important negotiations? A true-to-form Audley adventure, this, perhaps not as fast-moving as others of Price's stories of Audley and his colleagues, but Golden Dagger Awardee Anthony Price spins a fine tale, and The Memory Trap is a good read.
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Nancy Black
4.0 out of 5 stars but it's great to go back to this time
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2015
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Sometimes his language becomes completely entangled, but it's great to go back to this time. My mother used to read him a lot, and now I will, too!
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mytquinn
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2014
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Excellent as with all of Prices work.
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CunningArtificer
5.0 out of 5 stars A Damn good book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2012
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I have been reading Anthony Price's novels from when they were first published.
As with any paperback that is much read, 'age has withered and the years condemned' so what a joy to be able to load them on the demon Kindle.
Anthony Price is a writer of huge talent. His novels, though now 'of their time' read well, are engaging and are hugely enjoyable.
Not for him the dark melancholy of le Carre' but they do have that edge which makes for a good read that defies the clock – even after all these years and having read them several times before.
I can but recommend them to a new audience, they are smashing novels with good plot lines and characters that are more than plausible. Set in the days of the 'Cold War' they give an insight to those times when the Russian Bear was Red in tooth and claw.
What more could you want in a book.
Well done his publishers for making them available once more.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good read but not quite up to his previous standard
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2013
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Set in 1990 and the era of glasnost this is the last in the long sequence of Price's multi-award winning spy novels set in the research and development dept of the UK Security Service and the main character, Dr David Audley, is on the verge of retirement. Chronologically he first appeared as a junior officer in France in the final days of the 2nd world war which makes him mid-60s at the time of this book. As the title implies, the story concerns something which he and a former member of the dept may or may not have locked up in their memories from many years earlier. Something which is getting people killed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2014
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