The Czar’s Spy

Description

If you fancy classic espionage novels and complex mystery stories with a spy plot line, you will certainly love The Czar’s Spy. Written by the French-English author William Le Queux and published in 1905, The Czar’s Spy combines the best tradition of whodunits and spy fiction and it is a story that cannot be richer – it has romance, adventure, intrigue, mystery, deceit, all the ingredients to make a great plot.

It all starts in Italy where the protagonist, Gordon Gregg is working as temporary consul in Leghorn. His quiet life soon becomes upset and the story takes him on a zigzag journey from Italy to England, then to Finland, Russia and back to England, a journey that is full of mistaken identities, romance, tortures, both in the mental and in the physical sense, murders and thefts. The reader joins the protagonist as he travels by train across the continent, as he sails across the Mediterranean, as he uncovers political plots and other conspiracies, all in the pursuit of a woman he falls in love with after seeing her in a photograph and who holds an incredibly precious secret that many are after. If all this sounds confusingly eventful, don’t worry, the pieces of the puzzle will all find their place in the big picture and in the end everything will make sense, but not before the very end.

William Le Queux’s The Czar’s Spy is, beyond doubt, an extravagant page turner. The light and free-flowing writing style of the author, the promising plot, the multiple locations that are linked to each other not only by railroads, but also by lots of action, guarantee that you will want to read The Czar’s Spy in one go, from cover to cover.Don’t even try to guess the ending before the last page; let the story surprise you!
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