To Kill Our Worthy Comrade

The usual Cold War novel has a James Bond style Western agent pitted against the KGB. "To Kill Our Worthy Comrade" is a very different novel. Most of the action takes place in the USSR, but the novel depicts the rivalries that existed at the heart of Soviet power, as the Brezhnev era draws to a close in the early eighties.

We encounter a young air defence force officer who meets a pretty girl at a dance and then finds she is the daughter of his commanding officer.

Admiral Mikhail Petrov, a di...