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Pack of Lies

Hugh Whitemore author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:28th Aug '12

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By the acclaimed author of plays including "Breaking the Code" and "As You Desire Me."

Presents a play about two MI5 agents taking over the home of a family. This publication coincides with a theatre production on a UK tour."In 1961, Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans living in a London suburb, were convicted of spying for the Russians and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. From these true facts Hugh Whitemore has written a powerfully moving fictional account of the events leading up to their arrest with the action centered on the totally unsuspecting Jackson household - Bob, Barbara and their daughter Julie. The Jacksons live opposite the Krogers, believing them to be a convivial Canadian couple and their closest friends. Then a mysterious stranger arrives, announcing he is from MI5 and quietly coerces the Jacksons into allowing their house to be used as a surveillance post. In the nightmare months that follow, the Jacksons' decent, happy life is shattered as the truth about their much-loved friends is gradually revealed to them and, helpless in an alien, sordid world of deception and treachery, Barbara reaches breaking point with the agonizing realization that the Krogers have betrayed her and she, in turn, has betrayed the Krogers."

ISBN: 9781840027006

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

104 pages