| Category: | Fiction - Thriller- Espionage |
|---|---|
| Author: | David A. J. Axson |
| Publisher: | SONAX GROUP |
| Publication Date: | April 7, 2025 |
| Number of Pages: | 406 |
| ISBN-13: | 979-8992814002 |
| ASIN: | B0F29X469G |
In David A. J. Axson’s False Flag, MI6 recruit Nic
Slater deploys to Moscow in 1964, encountering KGB agent Irina Sashkaya. The
Cold War is at its peak, and the US is enmeshed in a war in Vietnam. The two
agents uncover Operation Vanquish, a Soviet strategy linking events like JFK's
assassination to planned invasions of Finland and Iran. Collaborating as double
agents, they manipulate intelligence services—including MI6's SirRod and CIA’s
Moses Ranger—to bluff the Politburo into aborting attacks. Can the SAS and US
interventions thwart the invasion without triggering World War III? This book
delivers a twisty plot, a thrilling double-agent tale that becomes as unpredictable
as it progresses.
David A. J. Axson’s were fun to follow, starting with Slater,
who is grounded in his gritty Sheffield roots, so different from the
aristocratic handler Sebastian Harmes, whose wit masks competence. Irina is
fierce, intelligent, and disillusioned with Soviet totalitarianism, risking
execution to prevent catastrophe. The setting was immersive for me, and I enjoyed
the dazzling depiction of Cold War paranoia, well captured from London’s smoky
pubs and Moscow’s bugged apartments. This imaginative thriller captures the
historical moment so well, with details like chalk marks on lampposts and
tapped phones used for surveillance. The imagery fascinated me, with places
like the Kandinsky House, its decadence and Soviet concrete blocks, the frozen
Finnish woods, and the windy Baku deserts, all well drawn. This is one of those
stories in which operatives rely on their consciences and betray their nations
in order to save them. False Flag contains gorgeous prose, terrific
descriptions, and action, but it was the tension that built to a crescendo that
kept me on the edge of my seat. There couldn’t have been a better opening for the Behind
the Curtain series than this book.
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