Review: A LOYAL TRAITOR by Tim Glister, published by Point Blank on February 10th

Michael’s latest review…

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ISBN 978 0 86154 166 9

Since I’m a child of the 60s, I’ve always been interested in books of the period. I love Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré, John Gardner … all inspired me with my own writing, and they’re writing about a period I know well.

It’s not just spy and crime stories – it’s the cars, the whiff of cigarette or panetella smoke, the smell of grotty aftershave, the holes in London where buildings stood twenty years before, the jagged, broken ruins where incendiaries blow-torched whole streets, and which no one had got round to rebuilding yet. I still remember one of the last big craters being developed into a big BT building just north of St Paul’s when I was going to university in the late ’70s. The War was still very fresh in the mind of the city.

So it was very pleasing…

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