Tim Glister - Red Corona

This is an incomplete list of everyone who has helped make this novel a reality.

First and foremost, my thanks go to Chris for being there through thick and thin, and keeping me going through both.

Also to Sian for letting me cannibalise the spare room, and all my friends who forgave me when I dropped off the face of the earth for months and reappeared talking about satellites and parachutes.

To Dan M for his unceasing support and flattery. To Master Ng for my fortune.

To my family for putting up with my obsession with spies and space for so long. And especially my mother, who said there weren’t that many typos in the manuscript, and my father, who said he’d ignore them.

To Gordon Wise for seeing something in this book, or me, or both, that other people might like. And to everyone else at Curtis Brown for their support in making a dream come true.

To Jenny Parrott, whose kind words and sleight of hand helped me get everything that was stuck in my head onto the page. And to the rest of the team at Point Blank and Oneworld for taking a hell of a chance on me.

‘Relentless and sleek. This pitch-perfect debut – a gripping espionage thriller in the vein of Charles Cumming, Tom Rob Smith, and Mick Herron – signals the arrival of a remarkable talent.’

‘A thoroughly engaging spy thriller that had me gripped from start to finish and left me desperate for more!’

‘A clever and complex thriller with truly memorable characters. The 60s setting is brilliantly done.’

‘A thriller of true ambition and scope – with Red Corona , his debut novel, Tim Glister announces himself as a writer to watch.’

‘A gripping historical thriller, impeccably researched and skilfully told.’

‘An engrossing and original spy thriller. Glister writes with confidence and excitement. A star of the espionage genre is born.’

‘A fascinating chase through an extraordinary time in history. Tim Glister blends technical insight with a clever story that races along. I enjoyed the intriguing characters who are rushing to solve a mystery as superpowers teeter on the brink.’

‘A fascinating and gripping Cold War thriller that shines a light on the surveillance race that hid in the shadow of the space race.’

A Point Blank Book

First published in Great Britain, Australia and the Republic of Ireland by Point Blank, an imprint of Oneworld Publications, 2020

This ebook published 2020

Copyright © Tim Glister 2020

The moral right of Tim Glister to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988

All rights reserved

Copyright under Berne Convention

A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78607-779-0 (hardback)

ISBN 978-1-78607-739-4 (ebook)

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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