The Russia House by John le Carre

In John le Carres first postglasnost spy novel The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppetmasters who command them. Barley Blair is not a Service man he is a smalltime publisher a selfdestructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair was befriended by a highranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West si Hardback