About the Book
The Cold War is at its height.
And Boysie Oakes is back in another terrifying adventure.
The reluctant assassin has been sent to Berlin to make a kill 'in the cold' on the other side of the Wall.
Trying to remember his own code-name, he is soon battling enemies that include
Russian secret servicemen, psychotropic drugs and a silky Chinese stripper called Rosy Puberty.
Both the Soviets and the Chinese want to track down his target, and Boysie is caught up in a deadly game of power politics.
And despite his best efforts, Boysie finds himself drawn into a far more sinister conspiracy - a face-to-face confrontation with the legendary Soviet spymaster General Khavichev.
‘Madrigal’ is the fourth in the Boysie Oakes series of novels by John Gardner. Tightly written and packed with incredible twists, ‘Madrigal’ is a brilliant continuation of the story of Gardner’s cowardly professional assassin.
