The Deviator

About this book

Jonas Wilde, Britain's top political assassin, has botched up his latest kill, and might have to pay for it with his life. Assigned to kill a top British scientist who may be defecting to the Soviets with the answer to nuclear survival, he carries ot his mission flawlessly only to discover he's killed an imposter. The real Everett Langtree is alive and well in Poland. He still has to kill the traitor. Accompanied by Langtree's estranged daughter, he heads behind the Iron Curtain, knowing full well that he is committing suicide. Once they reach Poland and, later, Moscow, thrills and intrigue engulf Wilde and Lynn like the Russian snow, and he finds himself adrift in an enemy land minus the use of his only weapon--his deadly right hand. When a group of Russians offer him safe passage home if he will do a job for them, the results can only be his Wildest adventure yet.

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About the author

Andrew York

7 December 1930

Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana, and was raised in the Caribbean. His education included: the Queen's College in Guyana; the Harrison College in Barbados; and was fellow by the Canadians Bankers Association. A romantic and passionate of history, he has been published since 1957 as Christopher Nicole, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring. His historical fiction sagas set in tumultuous periods of war have become in best-sellers, and he has won international acclaim for his work under several pseudonyms, some of there female, that includes: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson,…