Leo Cauffield, a British journalist living in Beirut, vanishes in January 1963. Her husband worked part-time for British intelligence, but Sally wasn't expecting the British embassy to tell her he'd deserted to communist Russia. His wife knits together the strange jigsaw of her husband's past, tracking their passionate relationship and his experience as previous head of MI6's counter-espionage branch.
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Leo Cauffield, a British journalist living in Beirut, vanishes in January 1963. Her husband worked part-time for British intelligence, but Sally wasn't expecting the British embassy to tell her he'd deserted to communist Russia. His wife knits together the strange jigsaw of her husband's past, tracking their passionate relationship and his experience as previous head of MI6's counter-espionage branch.
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