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"If Brian Freemantle isn't the best writer of spy novels around, he's certainly, along with John le Carré, in the top two. . . . It doesn't get much better than this." ---The Philadelphia Inquirer
In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by the FSB, Russia's intelligence-service successor to the infamous KGB. Charlie is Russia's long-term target in British counter-intelligence, and Moscow is determined to extract, by whatever means necessary, every secret of British---and Western---espionage over Charlie's thirty-year career.
Charlie's determined not only to resist the interrogation but to learn from it if his Russian intelligence-officer wife and their daughter escaped the trap that snared him and have reached England. He embarks on a cat-and-mouse battle of deception to convince his interrogators that they're learning what they want---or think they want---aware that one misspoken word could be fatal.
That's not Charlie's only problem. He's also trying to work out how his escape was foiled. It could not have been only due to the FSB, or his wife and daughter would have been caught as well. His MI5 boss doesn't think it was, either, and suspects treachery by Britain's external intelligence organization, MI6. To help discover the truth, Natalia, Charlie's wife, uses all the Russian tradecraft she's ever learned to help save her husband.
Red Star Falling---the third in the Red Star trilogy---continues the acclaimed series that has established Brian Freemantle as one of the world's most ingenious espionage writers.
- Sales Rank: #610855 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-06-25
- Released on: 2013-06-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
In the climax of Red Star Burning (2012), maverick MI5 agent Charlie Muffin was captured by the FSB at the Moscow airport after being shot (by another British agent) while extracting his wife, Natalia, an FSB agent, and his daughter, Sasha, from Russia. Yes, it’s complicated. When it appeared that Charlie and Natalia’s secret marriage was about to be exposed, Charlie put together a plan to bring his family to the West. That part worked, but Charlie now lingers in a Russian prison, where he is being interrogated by the FSB. Meanwhile, much backroom drama ensues in Britain, where rival groups in MI5 and MI6 are struggling for control as Natalia and another Russian defector become pawns in the bureaucratic cat fight. Unlike Red Star Burning, an intelligent but action-packed espionage tale of the old school, this one is almost completely devoid of action, focusing on boardrooms, interrogation sessions, even pillow talk—the venues where real spies most often ply their trade. Your pulse won’t pound, but your mind will be thoroughly engaged in this le Carré-like exploration of how manipulative bureaucrats pose a greater threat to individual lives than the cloak-and-dagger crowd ever did. --Bill Ott
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“In Freemantle's latest sophisticated spy thriller, the Muffin man remains a compelling figure, even in convalescent mode.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“The author again wickedly portrays the appalling internecine struggles between MI5 and MI6, yet retains a more sober vantage that the cold war is unending.” ―Crime Book Beat
About the Author
BRIAN FREEMANTLE is the author of more than thirty books, which have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. These include fifteen previous novels in the Charlie Muffin series, most recently Red Star Burning. He has been foreign editor and chief foreign correspondent for the London Daily Mail and foreign correspondent for the London Daily Sketch, among others. He lives in England.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Not Quite In from the Cold
By Charles Michener
Longtime readers of Brian Freemantle's Charlie Muffin spy thrillers will find all the usual hallmarks of this highly entertaining series in this latest entry: intricate tracking of the rivalries among Charlie's MI5 and MI6 spymasters in London; fresh evidence of Charlie's uncanny ability to anticipate his enemies' moves before they make them; and Freemantle's gift for delivering surprises right up to the last sentence. What they won't find in this perhaps not quite final installment in Charlie's cat-and-mouse game with the Kremlin is much in the way of action. Here, the fun come from wondering who will come out on top in the bureaucratic in-fighting and how Charlie can possibly escape the clutches of his Russian captors who are interrogating him inside a dacha guarded by feral dogs. As usual with Freemantle, his descriptions of how far great powers will go to cause maximum public embarrassment to one another hovers just this side of implausibility, which makes these stories so chillingly plausible. "Red Star Falling" is not exactly spine-tingling, but it's often appallingly amusing and leaves one still unsure as to how Charlie's reckless marriage to a former Russian spy is going to work out. For this Charlie Muffin fan, that's enough.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Not Enough Charlie
By uglygorilla
Been a Charlie Muffin fan for years (I'm old) and felt the finale to this trilogy was lacking a bit and Charlie was more absent than in any of the previous novels (including the first two Red Star books), more about the London operations than Charlie.
Nevertheless, still a cracking read and I hope that the author still has one or two books up his sleeve for Charlie, there's still life in those old Hush Puppies and more Islay whisky to be drunk.
And even if I am an old fart, I appreciate the author putting this out electronically rather just in paperback, instant, easy and better.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Loose ends....[spoiler alert!]
By B. Abramson
Be aware that this note refers to the aspects of the plot that you might not want to know about in advance.....
Freemantle's Charlie Muffin books are very good indeed. The plots are complex, the inside knowledge most impressive, the characters credible (up to a point), and there are always surprises.
In this third book in the Red Star series Freemantle more or less completes the story that begins with the discovery of a body in the grounds of the British embassy in Moscow. As this is legally British territory it falls to MI5 (~ domestic intelligence) rather than MI6 (~ external intelligence) to investigate (though why Scotland Yard aren't involved is another mystery). Charlie Muffin is assigned. In the first volume he solves the crime and uncovers a deep Soviet/Russian plot against the US. In the second volume he returns to Moscow to extract his Russian wife, who works for Russian intelligence, and their daughter. He succeeds but is captured before he can leave the country. Meanwhile, in parallel, British intelligence extracts the second-in-command of Russian intelligence from Russia and brings him and his wife to the UK.
In this volume we discover that much of what we were led to believe in the first two volumes wasn't quite what it appeared to be. This is where it seems that loose ends are left and the plot trips over itself. Charlie would not have solved the murder without the help of a Russian woman who claims to be the victim's lover but who Charlie exposes as an intelligence operative. Through his exposure of her "true" self he discovers and ends the plot against the US. However, if this woman had not contacted Charlie the crime would not have been solved and the Russian plot may have succeeded. So why did Russian intelligence go down this path?
The MI6 Operations Director has gathered information to demonstrate that his boss, the head of MI6, is a security risk, a megalomaniac, and is planning to have Charlie assassinated to distract the Russians while MI6 extracts the Russian intelligence director. This is enough to have the head of MI6 removed but rather than acting on the information he appears to commit suicide. Was it suicide? If so why, if not, what’s going on? This is left hanging in the air.
Operationally, would MI6 really hold a meeting between the extracted Russians and Russian diplomats in a prison? Don’t they realize how the Russians would make this look to the public? Further, they record this encounter with video and audio. Later they discover that the sound has been lost as the visiting Russians brought interfering equipment with them. How is it that there were no technicians monitoring the recording as it was being made? This happens at every other encounter. This just isn’t credible.
Freemantle consistently presents the people at the top of organizations (here the civil service and the intelligence services) to be totally consumed with preserving and advancing their own careers, strengthening their organization’s stature, and undermining every possible competitor. It is assumed that these goals can only be achieved through Machiavellian means. The possibility that you can succeed by being exceptionally good at what you do (as Charlie is) never seems to occur to them. I am sure such leaders are not uncommon but to find every them portrayed as pervading every organization becomes unreasonable and unbelievable.
There are other loose ends, not many, but enough to be annoying in such a tightly plotted series.
Perhaps there’s anther volume to follow.
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