An Agent on the Other Side

by George O'Toole

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555472060
• ISBN13: 9781555472061
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Critics Choice Paperbacks
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

damn fine spy thriller

I first read this book about 20 years ago, and, remembering that I liked it, I just now reread it. This is a damn fine spy thriller.Author is a former CIA officer, and it seems he knows his spycraft. It reads like an "espionage proceedural," scenes set in many segments of the US intelligence community. The characters are realistic, not cardboard figures or "types." They don't argue pointlessly for the sake of creating phony drama, but work together to solve problems.Story is set in 1968, during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. An American filmmaker with Czech ties is recruited to to contact a Czech filmmaker -- who's selling Soviet secrets to the Germans.There's an occult angle, but it's slight. This is no X-FILES in which the paranormal is a serious force. I'll say no more, lest it be a spoiler.Readers of serious spy fiction will enjoy it. But it's not ponderous -- this is a fast-paced thriller. I read over 100 pages in one day, and I'm a slow reader.