{"product_id":"the-conscript-9781913913182","title":"The Conscript","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alastair Davie\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Book Guild\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Book Guild\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Espionage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Pearson grows up in an impoverished, north-eastern English city. A socialist by virtue of his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eupbringing and an unabashed supporter of the Russian communist party. While at University, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estudying physics, he is seduced by a female lecturer and recruited as a Russian sleeper agent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe spies for the NKGB providing classified British research into radar and other advanced\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etechnologies during the Second World War, before he is turned by MI5. With his help, the agency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediscover and prosecute a Russian network of scientists in Britain who had infiltrated its wartime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresearch departments. The reaction of the Russians to his betrayal is ferocious and the NKGB set out\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto eliminate him...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter one failed attempt and suspicious of a possible Russian mole in MI5, Tom disappears into postwar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritain in game of cat and mouse that Tom simply cannot afford to lose...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlastair B. Davie is a retired corporate publicist living in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in England in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1945 and lived in Windsor before he was commissioned in the Royal Marines Commando Reserve\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand served for seven years. He later worked for the Financial Times and Reuters in marketing before\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emoving to the United States in 1976. He retired in 2002 as director of corporate communications\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor Foster Wheeler Corporation, a Fortune 500 company. His other books include A Sixth Sense and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesperate Conspiracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451127746711,"sku":"9781913913182","price":1206.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781913913182.webp?v=1769135843","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-conscript-9781913913182","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}