The Makeweight
Plane hijackings. Spy swaps. The Berlin Wall still standing. In other words, business as usual for spies.Jack Hinkley, the underachieving MI6 Station Head in Barcelona, is tired of watching the cable-car ply betweenthe harbour and Montjuïc from his offi ce window. But when a hijacked plane is forced to refuel at Bar celona,where it is successfully stormed, among the surviving passengers seen disembarking live on shaky long-focustelevision lenses are two KGB agents of interest. The natural order of things in the shadow world is suddenlyout of kilter. The Makeweight is a remarkable spy thriller from the 1980s, which will resonate with a new generation ofreaders, by a writer described by the Independent as “part le Carré, part Graham Greene”.
Philip Davison
- Liberties Press
- 9781912589340
- pages
- €14.99
- Paperback
- Ireland
- Fiction, espionage
