Angels in the Snow E-BOOK

A poignant and devastatingly accurate novel about life in Cold War Moscow, where ambition, espionage, sex and jealousy are rife in the diplomatic world.A diplomatic posting in Moscow offers excitement and intrigue, a chance to go behind the Iron Curtain. But the reality is a community of Western diplomats and cynical journalists cut off from ordinary Muscovites and under constant surveillance by the KGB. In this alien land an American working for the CIA and a young Englishman at the British Embassy are gradually cracking under the strain of life in the Soviet capital, their lives inextricably associated with the Twilight Brigade – the defectors who play cat-and-mouse with the secret police.The landmark first novel by Derek Lambert exposes the reality of life in post-Stalin Moscow, in which the tensions and hostility of the 1960s’ Soviet Union sometimes prove intolerable.The landmark first novel by Derek Lambert exposes the reality of life in post-Stalin Moscow, in which the tensions and hostility of the 1960s’ Soviet Union sometimes prove intolerable.‘[Derek Lambert’s] first novel, Angels in the Snow (1969), was the fruit of a year's posting in Moscow for the Daily Express. Lambert's ability to write taut dialogue and dramatic scenes encouraged a host of followers who, like him, came to realise that the espionage tale contained the essence of Cold War reality. With a ready eye for drama, which gave his journalism and fiction its air of authenticity, Lambert smuggled his incomplete manuscript out of Russia in a wheelchair when he was invalided home with suspected rheumatic fever. He finished it on his battered Olivetti typewriter in a flat over a grocer's shop in Ballycotton, Co Cork.’ Daily Telegraph‘A novel of terrific atmosphere’ Daily Express‘Excitingly real’ Sunday Telegraph‘Mr Lambert has written an eminently readable and poignant documentary novel. I predict that we shall hear a great deal more about him’ Sunday Express