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Courrier, Brian

 
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Synopsis

The man in the third row is not supposed to be alive.

Marcus Vane sees him at nine-fourteen on a Tuesday morning at the funeral of a retired GCHQ analyst named Arthur Pemberton - a man who, six days ago, did not in fact die of a heart attack. The man in the third row is Teodor Nowak, a former Polish intelligence officer confirmed dead eighteen months earlier by three independent services. A dead man does not learn an Anglican hymn in fourteen minutes.

Within thirty hours Marcus is in a hotel bar in Warsaw listening to Nowak explain a piece of legacy communications equipment in a Mokotow basement - fifteen years old, active every ninety-six hours, about to send false NATO orders to six allied nations on the morning of a vote in Brussels. Behind it: a thirty-year network with a political architect in a Hotel Amigo suite, an eighty-one-year-old woman in a Sarajevo bookshop, and a watcher inside MI6 who has been managing four investigations from the inside without ever being touched.

This is the closure Marcus has been working toward for five years. It is also the moment he understands the work isn't finished - that the network has a designer above the designer, a name from a Cambridge tutorial in 1989, a fixed point in Belgrade that has been peripheral to every investigation he has ever run.

The Warsaw Revenant is the fourth novel in the Marcus Vane series. The pace of a thriller. The texture of a novel. The patient, accumulating weight of people who do this work, what it costs them, and what remains on the record when it is done.

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