The Reluctant Contact

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Soviet spies, secret assignations and suspected murder lie at the heart of the new novel from Stephen Burke.Soviet spies, secret assignations and suspected murder lie at the heart of the new novel from Stephen Burke.
Svalbard, Norway, 1977. Engineer Yuri takes the last boat to the Soviet outpost of Pyramiden, just as the sun sinks for three long months. When his ambitious assistant Semyon is found dead in a mine, the circumstances seem strange. Yuri still plays by Stalin-era rules: Don't trust anyone; Keep your head down; Look after number one. Yet is his tempestuous love affair with the fickle, brooding Anya blinding him? On an island where the vodka follows freely and anyone could be a secret agent, even the people closest to you are not always what they seem.