This spy novel is not just a thrilling narrative, but a work so timely that it unerringly keeps its finger on the pulse of the times - and that finger never once wavers
Nat is a veteran of the British Secret Service. At 47, he would expect to be sent to retirement, but he gets a new team and a new assignment: to oversee the activities of Russian agents directed by Moscow. But he doesn't just live by his work; takes care of his little girl, a lawyer and leftist intellectual, and relaxes at badminton, a game at which he excels despite his middle age. It is at badminton that he meets an angry young man who hates Brexit, Trump and the whole post-Reagan and post-Thatcher Conservative politics. Nat introduces him to his wife and the young man convinces them both with his radical views that the current right-wing agenda, both British and American, is pure evil. Moreover, Nat will find that behind Trump's victory in the presidential election, as well as behind Brexit, is none other than Putin...
The spy novel Agent on Someone Else's Field is not just a thrilling narrative by an eighty-eight-year-old writer, but a work so timely that it quite unerringly keeps its finger on the pulse of the times - and that finger never once wavers.
The Argo publishing house publishes the author's older and new novels, most recently e.g. and the "memoir" The Pigeon Tunnel translated by Michael Žantovský or the spy novel The Little Drummer translated by Jiří Hanuš.
