A series of encounters with double agents and supernatural manifestations punctuated the agent’s career, leading to a disastrous mission in Turkey in 1948. Arrest and a seeming defection led to a posting in occupied Paris with a fellow Soviet agent, Elena Ceniza-Bendiga, and introduced Hale to elements far beyond the scope of normal espionage. Recruited as a young boy, via a mysterious family history, into an even-more-clandestine-than-usual section of the British secret service, Hale was encouraged to join the Communist Party as World War II began.
(This review originally appeared in Mythprint 38:3 (#228) in March 2001.)Īndrew Hale, the protagonist of Tim Powers’ new novel, is uprooted from his comfortable position as an Oxford professor by a coded telephone call, bringing the past into sharp relief. New York: William Morrow and Company, 2001.
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