Moscow Nights
In 1965, Commander Courtney, MP for Harrow East, was involved in a scandal: compromising and explicit photos of him and a certain Russian woman had been disseminated amongst the British national press. Who had sent them - and why? For the British businessman plying his wares behind the Iron Curtain in the 1960s, life was a constant game of cat and mouse with the security services. Feared and loathed in equal measure, the KGB and the STASI were supreme practitioners of the art of espionage with a singularly dispassionate view of killing and a willingness to mete out the harshest punishments to those unfortunate enough to cross their path. It was against this backdrop that Adrian McIntyre carried out his business dealings in the USSR and...
