The Moscow Option
Double agent Paul Dark must confront the ghosts of his past in order to save himself and the world
October, 1969. Moscow. Paul Dark is a broken man. A terrible mistake twenty-four years ago led to him being recruited into Soviet intelligence, but he has paid a heavy price for it. Now locked up in a cell, distrusted even by those he once served, Dark has nothing for company but the ghosts of his past when he is woken in the early hours and taken to a secret location. There, he discovers that the Soviets believe they are about to face a nuclear attack by the West -- and are planning to strike first as a result. Dark realizes at once that the truth of the matter involves the final days of the Second World War, and the final mission he undertook as a loyal British agent.
Now the fate of the entire world rests on the shoulders of one man: a traitor long past his best, who is soon the subject of a massive man-hunt in one of the most repressive regimes in history. Dark needs to make it to a small island in the Baltic before it's too late -- and the clock is ticking.
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Jeremy Duns
Jeremy Duns was born in 1973 and grew up mainly in Africa and Asia. He read English Literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford, after which he worked as a journalist in Brussels for seven years. His debut novel, FREE AGENT, the first in a series of spy thrillers set in the Cold War featuring MI6 agent Paul Dark, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2009. This was followed by a sequel, FREE COUNTRY (titled SONG OF TREASON in paperback), in 2010, and a third in the series, THE MOSCOW OPTION in 2012. The most recent Dark novel, SPY OUT THE LAND, was published in January 2016. Jeremy is also the author of a work of non-fiction, DEAD DROP, about the Cold War spy Oleg Penkovsky.
Jeremy Duns lives in Finland with his wife and two children.
A Paul Dark Novel
A Paul Dark Novel consists of four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
