A brilliant Cuban Missile Crisis spy thriller by a former special forces officer who is ''poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carr-
''Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carr- Irish Independent
''More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers'' Publishers Weekly
October, 1962. If the Cuban gamble goes wrong and war breaks out, Britain will cease to exist.
Whitehall dispatches a secret envoy to defuse the confrontation. Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with an anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it.
Though he is loathed by the Americans for his left-wing sympathies, Catesby is sent to Havana and Washington to make clandestine contacts. London has authorised Catesby to offer Moscow a se
