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      The Last Defector

      by Tony Cape
      Published
      Jun 1991
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      Suspense Suspense
      Pages
      448
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      Posted to New York City as a lowly "locks and safes" man for British Intelligence, Derek Smailes could at least derive satisfaction from his growing intimacy with the lovely Clea Lynch.

      But when he is instructed to engineer the defection of a Soviet arms-control expert no one is more surprised than Smailes. Sceptical of thawing East-West relations, wary of superpower manoeuvrings, British Intelligence is on high alert.

      And when the unthinkable happens, as the Soviet President is ousted by a cabal of generals on the eve of a major arms deal, Smailes finds himself drawn into an increasingly deadly game of counter-espionage as KGB and CIA agents close in on a trail that could lead to the most dangerous traitor of them all ...

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      May 1992 Bantam ISBN13 9780553297553 ISBN10 0553297554
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      First Edition Jun 1991 Doubleday ISBN13 9780385415729 ISBN10 0385415729
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