{"product_id":"9780008268312_angels-in-the-snow","title":"Angels in the Snow","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poignant and devastatingly accurate novel about life in Cold War Moscow, where ambition, espionage, sex and jealousy are rife in the diplomatic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA diplomatic posting in Moscow offers excitement and intrigue, a chance to go behind the Iron Curtain. But the reality is a community of Western diplomats and cynical journalists cut off from ordinary Muscovites and under constant surveillance by the KGB. In this alien land an American working for the CIA and a young Englishman at the British Embassy are gradually cracking under the strain of life in the Soviet capital, their lives inextricably associated with the Twilight Brigade – the defectors who play cat-and-mouse with the secret police.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe landmark first novel by Derek Lambert exposes the reality of life in post-Stalin Moscow, in which the tensions and hostility of the 1960s’ Soviet Union sometimes prove intolerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe landmark first novel by Derek Lambert exposes the reality of life in post-Stalin Moscow, in which the tensions and hostility of the 1960s’ Soviet Union sometimes prove intolerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘[Derek Lambert’s] first novel, \u003cem\u003eAngels in the Snow\u003c\/em\u003e (1969), was the fruit of a year's posting in Moscow for the \u003cem\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/em\u003e. Lambert's ability to write taut dialogue and dramatic scenes encouraged a host of followers who, like him, came to realise that the espionage tale contained the essence of Cold War reality. With a ready eye for drama, which gave his journalism and fiction its air of authenticity, Lambert smuggled his incomplete manuscript out of Russia in a wheelchair when he was invalided home with suspected rheumatic fever. He finished it on his battered Olivetti typewriter in a flat over a grocer's shop in Ballycotton, Co Cork.’ \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A novel of terrific atmosphere’ \u003cem\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Excitingly real’ \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Mr Lambert has written an eminently readable and poignant documentary novel. I predict that we shall hear a great deal more about him’ \u003cem\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Derek Lambert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47285348761749,"sku":"9780008268312","price":4.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008268312.jpg?v=1776992113","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008268312_angels-in-the-snow","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}