Synopsis

It is 1962 and Alex Marshall is in trouble- he’s only a student drop out but in the space of a month he has been recruited by the Soviet, British and U.S. Secret services, just as the Cuba Missile Crisis is racheting up to its climax…and all this just because he has a crush on a French girl he has just met in London.  But Alex and his fellow conspirators are mere pawns, with no influence, being moved around by forces they can’t begin to understand.

The background to the action is the London of that era-not just the London of the embryonic Swinging Sixties but also the less glamorous suburbs.  In key interludes the action also moves to La France Profonde and the Cote d’Azur. 

There are other themes - the Post-War politics and the ongoing and endless debates of the Left, both in Britain and France; and the social and artistic revolution going on in Britain at that time

And the sex.  There is a lot of sex, which seems to be a constant preoccupation of many of the leading characters, to the extent that it becomes structural to the plot.  The politics (Algerian War of Independence, Cuba Crisis, the Assassination of Kennedy) and the culture and events in Britain (Great Train Robbery, CND, Mods and Rockers, the music scene) of those two years are the background of this action. 

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