Anglo-Iranian Oil has been syphoning millions every year out of Iran but Mossadegh wants to nationalise the industry. Len Deighton’s devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next twenty-four hours.

The author plays semi- fair, certain characters know more than they are telling, but the clues are there, and the story doesn't make any surprise jumps. When he gets news that his son, who is a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian went missing in Tehran he knows he's the only one who will be able to find him. The writing is very good, all from Harry's point of view, and the story never snags, or drags almost from the the first chapter. Sinister rumors link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network.This Spy thriller is very good and it’s good to have a book set in the Middle East instead of Russia or.

A very enjoyable read, and recommended for fans of Eric Ambler, David Ignatius, Charles Cumming and Joseph Kanon. Agent Palmer, yes really Agent Palmer makes his debut on the Spybrary Podcast to deliver his brush pass review on Len Deighton's Yesterday's Spy! Was he really taken in retribution for his reporting, or is this an attempt to silence a globally significant revelation he was preparing to make?But as the first attempt at a coup in the city fails and foreign powers jockey for oil, money, and influence, Sean's disappearance takes on a more sinister tone.

Author Tom Bradby’s latest offering ‘Yesterday’s Spy’ is set mainly in 1950’s Tehran and features recently retired SIS agent Harry Towers. There is a twist in the end which I found disappointing but readers will have to make up there own minds. Young Cambridge student Amanda James gets on the wrong side of a drunken and bellicose Nazi gang toasting the glories of new Reich.Tom Bradby's Kate Hnederson series were quite good (well, except the third one, which was disastrous), which is why I wanted to read his standalone new novel, "Yesterday's Spy". But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit and betrayal. Harry spends the novel chasing down leads (most of which suggest that Sean is dead or will be soon) and figuring out why Sean was kidnapped. A big thank you to Random House UK, Transworld Publishers, Bantam Press and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. Also lots of parties at Embassies, posh restaurants and fast cars which made a startling contrast with the near-poverty in which much of the population existed.

Still, Tom Brady structured the novel to make it possible for the reader to appreciate the story without liking the protagonist. With the support of the country’s leading mullah, Abol-Ghasem Kashani, Americans under the command of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. It is primarily set in the early 1950s and focuses upon Harry Tower, recently retired British Secret Service agent.Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed ‘Mickey Mouse’), who is almost on his way to becoming a Flying Ace, and reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, who is starting to fall in love with an English woman. The characters are nothing special but the historical background is rather interesting as are the flashbacks. The story alternates between Tower running around Tehran with his son's girlfriend, talking to all kinds of shady characters -- French spies, Iranian gangsters, mysterious Americans, etc. New readers to Deighton might like to start with his infamous novels featuring his nameless working class spy hero, later christened Harry Palmer.