TUTE, Warren.
A Matter of Diplomacy.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Ltd. , 1969.
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First Edition of Warren Tute's A Matter of Diplomacy
First British edition of this sophisticated "post-Philby" spy novel, set against the political tension of Greece under the Colonels, in which loyalty, desire, and diplomacy prove difficult to tell apart. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Terry James.
Published in 1969, A Matter of Diplomacy is a literate Cold War espionage novel set against the tense political backdrop of Greece under its military dictatorship. Into Athens comes Elissa Tarnham, the beautiful wife of Britain's most notorious defector to the Soviet Union, and her arrival sets a dangerous question in motion: has she come to rejoin her husband, to renew a love affair with the Acting Ambassador, or to throw in her lot with Marides, a cunning Greek shipping magnate? Drawing on his own wartime service on Earl Mountbatten's staff, Warren Tute writes in the manner of the John le Carré school, lacing the conventional intrigues of "post-Philby" spying with a taste of existential crisis and moral ambiguity. The result is a sophisticated thriller in which diplomacy, desire, and divided loyalty prove difficult to tell apart.
A Matter of Diplomacy.
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