The Company of Saints

by Evelyn Anthony

Book Overview

The first assassin, in Venice, destroys Davina Graham's holiday. The incident in Paris shatters her composure. Back in London the tension mounts as Davina--the first woman to head the British Secret... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399128956
• ISBN13: 9780399128950
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A cold war thriller

This is a fast, good read, even though the subject matter is now a little dated. It's a political thriller with murder, assassinations and all the usual "Third Man" stuff of an earlier generation. The old, hard line Russian leaders are about to be replaced by a more peace aware, younger leader and head of the KGB... a thinly disguised Boris Yeltsin. Davina Graham is head of the British SIS when a series of assassinations takes place around the world, committed by a group of mentally unstable young people who have been targetted and trained to murder on command. Intelligence agents everywhere are convinced that this is the work of a terrorist group who wish to prevent the formation of a softer Russian government, and work together to find an answer. Davina's current lover is proved to be in the pay of the KGB, while her relationships with her father and her sister Charlie are non existent as both of them resent her for having outed Charlie's husband as a Russian mole. If you like the cold war type thrillers, You'll love this one !

plot...

Davina Graham, newly appointed head of British Intelligence, begins a Venetian holiday. Her plans change abruptly when a bomb is thrown at the vacationing American Secretary of Defense. Within weeks, the assassins strike at a French diplomat, a British priest, even a KGB agent. Trusting noone, not even her lover, Graham takes a huge risk and arranges a meeting with her Soviet counterpart, hoping to end the personal and political chaos.