Agent in Place, Helen MacInnes
Agent in Place, Helen MacInnes
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Agent in Place

Author: Helen MacInnes

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 11 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2023

Synopsis

“I am an agent in place, a mole that stays underground and works out of sight.”Chuck Kelso is an idealist. When he steals a top-secret NATO memorandum, he only intends to leak it to the press; but it is soon in the hands of a Russian agent, a man who has spent nine years quietly working himself into the fabric of Washington society. Within hours it has reached the KGB, and the CIA’s top man in Moscow has had his cover blown. For British agent Tony Lawton, hunting down the Russian operative—the ‘agent in place’—is a welcome challenge. But for Chuck’s brother, the journalist Tom Kelso, and his beautiful wife, Thea, the affair has unleashed a very special terror.Now the race is on to find the Russian spy before a top-level NATO conference. But why is the escaped agent behaving so strangely? Is he who he seems?

About Helen MacInnes

Helen MacInnes (1907–1985) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. Dubbed “the queen of spy writers,” her books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in the United States alone and have been translated into over twenty-two languages. Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972).

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan on June 17, 2016

Published in 1976, this book has aged well. We are still spying on Russia, and Russia is still spying on us. One good thing about spy stories is that they are often travelogues. This book starts in New York and Washington, but then goes to Menton, France, which is on the coast not far from Monaco an......more

Goodreads review by Ron on August 24, 2022

I enjoy Helen's writings. This book, as well as others, is concerned about the Cold War and Russia stealing secret documents by Agents (spies) planted in the US and other Western nations. Who is a spy and who isn't. Is a defector really a defector? Should secrets really be secrets or should the gene......more

Goodreads review by Simon on October 10, 2012

Originally published on my blog here in January 2001. At its beginning, Agent in Place is about the leak of a NATO memo to the American press. However, it becomes clear that the Russians have orchestrated the leak of the comparatively innocuous first part of the memo to get hold of the second and thi......more

Goodreads review by Liz on March 14, 2018

Re-read this book to see if it held the same magic as it did thirty years ago, and largely, it did. MacInnes’ prose is propulsive and gripping, even if the mise en scene is of another time and world (ah, how cell phones and texting have all but erased labyrinthine miscommunication as a plot device!)......more

Goodreads review by Bev on August 28, 2010

Good. Fast paced. Reminds me of James Bond, but cleaner :)......more

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