Face Me When You Walk Away
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- Synopsis
- From the book Jacket A chilling and brilliantly written novel that goes beyond spies and defectors to the highest echelons of the Soviet Presidium, where fear of the purge festers below the smooth surface of political success. After seven years in a prison camp for an alleged "anti-Soviet activities," Josef Bultova is set free. Having friends in the West is no longer a crime-now that the authorities need a man to bridge the two worlds. Josef the negotiator, lover of luxury and fine wine- with his mastery of five languages and his flair for handhng matters too delicate for direct government involvement-is suddenly indispensable. For on this year's Nobel Prize short list are a Russian novelist, an American, and a Chinese. And as Uli Devgeny, Minister of Culture (loathed by Josef as the man who signed the imprisonment order against him), patiently explains, "It would be very unfortunate for a member of the People's Republic of China to be selected and feted as a better writer than a Russian." So Josef is chosen to guard, politically and emotionally, the young writer and former peasant Nikolai, now the hottest Soviet property, who is being allowed for the first time to tour the west. Josef is reinstated and treated like an ambassador-and he is given a new wife. Yet he is haunted by the specters of the prison camp and the dangling jerking shadow of Medev the Jew. As he picks his way through the various political minefields that await him in Moscow and on tour, where he wheels and deals in the plushest suites with literary agents and film producers, he knows that failure means not humiliation, but death. He has never been more vulnerable. face me when You walk away is one man's view from the other side, and it comes startlingly close to current politics. Brian Freemantle has penetrated beyond the world of espionage that he portrayed in Goodbye to an Old Friend. He has entered the upper levels of Soviet politics, where being perpetually five moves ahead of your opponent becomes a condition of the soul as well as a matter-of-fact proviso of existence.
- Copyright:
- 1974
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 287 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 03/07/05
- Copyrighted By:
- Brian Freemantle
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Tiffany Jessen
- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.