The Translator - by Harriet Crawley (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Wall Street Journal: "An espionage tale and a Romeo-and-Juliet romance zipped into one irresistible package".The Sunday Times: Best Thrillers of 2023. Financial Times: Best Summer Thrillers of 2023. "A classic thriller of the new Cold War." Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad. A highly topical espionage novel about a Russian plot to cut the undersea communication cables linking the US to the UK. Also, a passionate love story between two people determined to stop this cataclysmic act.

Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. His life is upended when he discovers that his former lover, Marina Volina, is the interpreter to the Russian President. Together they will try to stop the attack that could paralyze communications and collapse the Western economy.

Review Quotes

Wall Street Journal: 'An espionage tale and a Romeo-and-Juliet romance zipped into one irresistible package.'

The Sunday Times Best Thriller Books of 2023: 'Enthralling'

The Times Thriller of the Month: 'Wonderfully Realised'

Financial Times Best Summer Thrillers of 2023: 'Engaging spy story...in a Moscow full of menace'

'A classic thriller of the new Cold War.' Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad.

'Unputdownable'--Xan Smiley, The Economist

'A gripping, prophetic and ingenious novel of love and political intrigue in the new Cold War. A real page-turner.' Owen Matthews, author of Overreach and Red Traitor

'Prescient and pacey, this book sizzles with the author's expertise.' Edward Lucas, author of The New Cold War: Putin's Threat to Russia and the West

About the Author

Harriet Crawley has been a journalist, writer, and art dealer, worked in television and radio, and she stood for the Westminster and European Parliaments. A fluent Russian speaker, Harriet was married to a Russian, sent her son to state school in Moscow where she worked for almost twenty years in the energy sector. She speaks five languages and this is her fifth book.