Really good!

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I didn't do 20th century history at school, so have been gradually absorbing bits through the books I read. I hadn't read anything about the cold war era and the Cambridge spies before. This book is fact mixed with fiction dosed with a liberal dose of literary licence. Even so, there is enough in it for me to be able to correlate it with facts I can double check.
The story is set mainly in the post war era, but sets the scene with a good third of the book describing how the main character, Freddie Troy, came to meet and become loose friends with Guy Burgess. The main story starts with Burgess wanting to come home and asks Troy for his help. As with any book, things do not go as planned and someone is murdered. During this era of spies and espionage, everyone is a suspect.
An enjoyable read.