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Joël Dicker

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'Nerves and sabres rattle in this high-stakes spy thriller of the Cold War.'
- Independent Book Review

1961: The cold war and the dawning of the space race. A British secret service agent is sent to Casablanca to investigate suspicious activity surrounding an allusive French physicist, Aristide de Sauveterre. With the aid of the washed-up, ex-pat civil servant, Clyde Dowling, he begins to piece together the Frenchman's devilish plan. The soviets are brought into play and the agent quickly falls for the beautiful and alluring Russian diplomat, Valentina Primakova. She is the key, his way in but he struggles with his need to use her to get the information he so desperately wants. While the agent risks his life in search of clues, night diving aboard a sunken cargo vessel in the port, and behind the wheel of a Maserati in a mad road race across the city, de Sauveterre is already finalising his plans at a secret facility he's built in the desert. If the cold-hearted agent is to do anything to stop the physicist's fantastical plan from being realised, he'll need to eschew the few tattered personal morals he has left in him in order to track de Sauveterre down and confront him.

The agent takes you on a thrilling and immersive ride through the heady exoticism of early sixties Casablanca in a compelling cold war era thriller, weaving in science and buckling the classic espionage premise with a twisted finale. Readers of Fleming and Follet will particularly enjoy this intriguing story, full of engaging characters and narrow escapes. Brimming with style, detail and atmosphere, Cold Star confidently evokes the period with great historical authenticity. Jet back to the dawn of the space age with Cold Star.

Second printing, professionally reformatted for 2023. This revised first edition fixes a small number of typos which had previously escaped the editing process.

'Author Dick Woodgate displays his love of this genre's classics with the shadowy spirit of the great spy stories before him.' - Kathy L. Brown, IBR

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