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Last Night of the World.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wayne, Joyce.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linton, Fred, 1916---Fiction.
- Linton, Fred.
- Gouzenko, Igor, 1919-1982--Fiction.
- Gouzenko, Igor.
- Grierson, John, 1898-1972--Fiction.
- Grierson, John.
- Gouzenko Affair, Canada, 1945-1946--Fiction.
- Gouzenko Affair, Canada, 1945-1946.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Soviet Union--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Canada--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Spy stories.
- Fiction.
- Spy fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Mosaic Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "On a hot Ottawa night in August 1945, Soviet agent Freda Linton's world is about to fall apart. She's spent the war infiltrating the highest levels of the Canadian government as an undercover operative for the fledging Canadian Communist Party and for Moscow's military police. As the global conflict nears its conclusion, her Soviet embassy handler and darling of the diplomatic scene Nikolai Zabotin sends her to retrieve atomic secrets from the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories. When Freda discovers that Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko plans to turn over top secret files to the RCMP that will expose Freda and the others in her spy ring, she is faced with an impossible decision and must determine who is on her side. Should she risk everything to smuggle out nuclear secrets that will kick off the Cold War? Joyce Wayne's Last Night of the World brings a high-energy creativeness and emotional tension to a story that is rooted in a generation's defining incident."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Chernobyl journal 1988
- PART ONE
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- PART TWO
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- PART THREE
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Chapter Twenty-Two
- Chapter Twenty-Three
- Chapter Twenty-Four
- Chapter Twenty-Five
- Chapter Twenty-Six
- Chapter Twenty-Seven
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-77161-302-5
- OCLC:
- 1026492257
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