The Poet's Game: A Spy in Moscow - Paul Vidich

'Vidich has firmly established himself in the very top flight of espionage writers, with a series of slow-burn character studies putting him in the line of le Carré'CrimeReads on Beirut Station 'Tense' and 'fast-moving'Kirkus on Beirut Station 'Confirms Vidich's status in the front rank of spy writers' Tim Shipman in The Sunday Times on Beirut Station 'We all have dreams and then we wake up.' Alex Matthews thought he had left it all behind. His CIA career, the viper's den of bureaucracy at headquarters and the lies and stress of the cat and mouse game of double agents. But then the Director came asking for a favour. Alex is a different man from when he had run Moscow station, where he recruited a network of 'poet spies' including the one he names BYRON. He has pieced his life back tog