The Kiriov Tapes

by Owen Sela

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394485343
• ISBN13: 9780394485348
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 254 Pages

Customer Reviews

I.B.M. COMPUTER ESPIONAGE - CIRCA 1973

This spy novel from the mid-1970's though stated to be similar to Ian Fleming or John LeCarre seemed to me more like Len Deighton. The first few chapters were very confusing for me and at other times the book caused me to wonder just how what I was reading fit into the plot. However, the further one reads into this book the more it begins to straighten out and the plot reveals itself. Essentially the British and the KGB are playing tag of sorts, with one KGB agent, Anatol Kiriov, in particular wanting to defect: his asking price is 30,000 pounds plus assylum. Before that can happen he is killed, and the IBM tapes produced from 3 x 7 keypunched cards based on the intel Antol Kiriov has given, are stolen. It has to be an inside job, there are only four keys to the safe and only two people know the combination, which is changed daily. Ah, but catching the rascal, that is as Holmes would say, the 'game afoot'. Our battered hero, Adrian Quimper, has lost more times than he or we can count, but he has never learned not to be a idealistic seeker of truth. Even when his own people try to stonewall and even attempt killing him, he charges on to the end to finally stumble into a suitable ending. While this is not the best espionage novel out there, it is a pretty good one. And though it is now nearly 35 years of age, does not show its age at all. Semper Fi.