JAMES WOLFF In Person With Paul
JAMES WOLFF chats to Paul Burke about his two novels BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA & HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY, frequencies of conflict, spies are real people and what makes a literary spy novel.
BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA: Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads to Beirut with a haul of the most sensitive documents imaginable and recruits an unlikely ally – an alcoholic…
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