A Cold Wind From Moscow by Rory ClementsSynopsis: “Winter, 1947. Britain’s secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ever – and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of ‘Special Tasks’ to create extra chaos. But Stalin has a more important motive than mere disruption. He has a man on the inside who must be protected at all costs – a communist super-spy who has the secrets of the atomic bomb at his fingertips. Freya Bentall, a senior MI5 officer, no longer knows who to trust and is left with one option: to bring in an outsider whose loyalty is beyond question – Cambridge professor Tom Wilde. His task: to find the traitor in MI5. Bentall has three main suspects and Wilde must get close to them all. That means delving deep into the criminal underworld, attaching himself to the cultural elite of the arts and finding a way into the extreme reaches of British politics. As winter bites and violence erupts, Wilde faces an uphill battle to protect those he loves from merciless killers. And he knows that one slip will spell disaster for the country – and his family.”

My Review

I do love this series featuring American Cambridge History Professor Tom Wilde. I actually thought that The English Fuhrer was the last book, so I was delighted to discover that after a year’s break, Rory Clements had written another adventure for my favourite reluctant spy.

Set in the frozen winter of 1947, the books starts with Tom finding a dead body in his rooms at Cambridge University, and gets himself involved, once again, with MI5.

This book was full of some really nasty characters, including London gangsters, MI5 and Soviet spies, and Philip Easton from the previous books. I really didn’t know who to trust, and poor Tom felt the same, especially when Freya Bentall, his contact at MI5 wasn’t completely honest with him either.

With harsh weather conditions, and tighter rationing even though WW2 was over, it all added to a atmospheric read that kept me hooked.

Highly recommended if you enjoy spy thrillers set in post war Britain.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Bonnier Zaffre for my digital copy.