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The Starlings of Bucharest

Sarah Armstrong author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Sandstone Press Ltd

Published:22nd Apr '21

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Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when he is given the opportunity to go to Romania to interview a film director.

But someone has other plans for him.

Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when he is given the opportunity to go to Romania to interview a film director and then attend the Moscow film festival.

But someone has other plans for him.

Has he walked into a trap?

Brilliantly evocative of the insidiousness, paranoia and mistrust of the Soviet period. A thrilling read

-- Charlotte Philby

We all start out from Graham Greeneland — the journey across it, even out of it, is what matters.

Sarah Armstrong cuts her own path … an enviable talent for location and detail. She may be new to spy-noir but I think the master himself would endorse The Starlings of Bucharest — an enthralling Greeneland tale of an innocent young man out of his depth in a cold, cold war.

-- John Lawton

The prose is beguiling – Alice Munro meets John le Carré.

-- Fiona Erskine

‘A mesmerising, evocative novel in which characterisation and narrative tension are in perfect balance.’

-- Barry For

ISBN: 9781913207007

Dimensions: 195mm x 130mm x 25mm

Weight: 190g

304 pages