Dear Reader

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This book is being released via BookCrossing on 5 March 2011 as part of the inaugural World Book Night. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.

Read and release!

A much darker read than I had anticipated. My previous le Carre (The Constant Gardener) had not prepared me for this gritty and cynical portrayal of the cold war and its participants. At some point I will be releasing this in Coventry.

I couldn't find the bookshelf, left it in the front room

Arts and Craft flea market, Bablake Boys Club, Spon St, Coventry (St Johns church)
19th May.

Happy reading!

Wasn't picked up from the flea market at Bablake Old Boys Club, so was taken to The BBC Open Centre Priory Place, Coventry.

Picked up from the Coventry BBC

Sitting on a bench in Newbiggin-By-The-Sea