Traitor's Kiss

By Gerald Seymour

Book Overview

For the past four years, a high-ranked Russian naval officer named Viktor Archenko has been passing valuable information to MI6. His contacts in London know nothing about him--but when the flow of information stops, they know for sure that he's under suspicion. The time has come to get him out.But a new breed plays the spy game now: men like Gabriel Locke. Locke has no interest in irrelevant Cold War sparring or the risk of a scandal. He would rather leave Archenko to fend for himself. Only one veteran agent realizes that there is much more at stake than one man's life.With his latest tale of intrigue, Gerald Seymour gives us a novelistic world that is as duplicitous, subtle, and as terrifyingly immediate as the headlines the world could wake up to tomorrow morning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585678856
• ISBN13: 9781585678853
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Traitor's Kiss

Published in the UK in 2003, Gerald Seymour's novel Traitor's Kiss is finally released in the United States by Overlook, who published The Unknown Soldier. Hopefully they will start to bring Seymour's other titles back into print. Taking place years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and in the new age of the war on terror, a Russian naval officer provides intelligence information to the British Secret Service. Compromised, he misses his dead drops, and a cunning interrogator of the FSB is brought in from the battlefields of Chechnya to break the traitor. British intelligence officials debate what, if anything, is to be done, and four former Royal Marine commandos of the Special Boat Service are tasked with getting him out of the Russian naval base where he is held. A fast paced plot populated by a cast of multifaceted, varied characters, this is Seymour's best book.

My Years Before the Mast

Although the work was fiction, I know for a fact, that liasons are made with people from other countries. Whether it is peacetime, war-time or a 'cold war', relationships continue. This was a gripping description of 'The Game', written in part from a woman's perspective. The characters in this book come to life and some of them die, just as in real life. Beyond the thrill and the challenge, lies the responsiblity of friend-to-friend and lover-to-lover. For those who wonder what motivates people to help one another, please read this book. Maybe the countries change but the work continues. Happy Reading!