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The Secret Lovers

A nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novelist to Paul Christopher, and minutes after the handoff, the courier's killed. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher's wife takes a lover to stir her husband out of the stoicism that defines his personality.

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  • "A nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novelist to Paul Christopher, and minutes after the handoff, the courier's killed. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher's wife takes a lover to stir her husband out of the stoicism that defines his personality."@en
  • "Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to agent Paul Christopher; minutes later the courier's spine is snapped by an impact with a passing limousine. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a lover in an attempt to stir her husband's stoicism. These two seemingly discrete events set in motion a spiral of operational and personal intrigue that leads Christopher from Europe to Africa, as he secretly arranges the publication of a book that could bring the Soviet Union to its knees and races to identify the leak that compromised his messenger - and possibly the entire mission."@en
  • "Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to agent Paul Christopher; minutes later the courier's spine is snapped by an impact with a passing limousine. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a lover in an attempt to stir her husband's stoicism. These two seemingly discrete events set in motion a spiral of operational and personal intrigue that leads Christopher from Europe to Africa, as he secretly arranges the publication of a book that could bring the Soviet Union to its knees and races to identify the lea."@en
  • "Vlak nadat een geheim agent van de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst een belangrijk Russisch manuscript in ontvangst heeft genomen, wordt de koerier vermoord."
  • "Set in 1960 at the peak of the cold war, the story turns on the smuggling of a vital manuscript out of Moscow. At dawn in Berlin, covert action officer Paul Christopher rendezvouses with the agent carrying the manuscript to the West. Minutes later, the courier is killed by a hit-and-run driver. And the questions begin. Who killed the courier, but, most of all, why?"
  • "Set in 1960 at the peak of the cold war, the story turns on the smuggling of a vital manuscript out of Moscow. At dawn in Berlin, covert action officer Paul Christopher rendezvouses with the agent carrying the manuscript to the West. Minutes later, the courier is killed by a hit-and-run driver. And the questions begin. Who killed the courier, but, most of all, why?"@en
  • "Bij het naar het westen smokkelen van de nieuwste roman van een Russische patriot wordt een tussenpersoon gedood waarop de Engelse geheime dienst in actie moet komen."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Spy stories"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "De hemmelige elskere"@da
  • "De geheime minnaars"
  • "Codewort Liebe : Polit-Thriller"
  • "The Secret Lovers"@en
  • "THE SECRET LOVERS"
  • "The secret lovers"
  • "The secret lovers"@en
  • "Gli amanti segreti"@it
  • "Gli amanti segreti : romanzo"

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