Reflective novel set in Denmark, France and Canada
Beyond the Funeral
As the red rose drifted away in the sea with the ashes, it was not the end of the story. It was the start of a new spy thriller – “Beyond the Funeral” – a fast-moving story in which even the Russian secret service is fallible as they are outsmarted by the British and US agencies. A senior Russian diplomat goes on trial in the UK for conspiracy to poison Marina Peters, a woman working for the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. She had started an on-line romance with a man who turned out to be a spy. He was “The Russian Lieutenant” in the author’s previous book which ended with her funeral – and now there are the inevitable reprisals by Moscow, including another poisoning attack in Portsmouth. Along the way, readers will discover Samantha Lord, a new central character who gets her baptism of fire as a CIA operator in Mexico and Canada; and the Russian spy who posed as a naval officer for his on-line “affair” is arrested but returned to Moscow in a dramatic spy-swap.
“….makes the courtroom drama come alive …five stars for Marshall’s second spy adventure” – review on Amazon.
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