Operation Destruct
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Operation Destruct is a 1969 spy novel by Christopher Nicole
written in the context of the Cold War
and contests in international espionage between the West and the Soviet Union.
In his first novel, British intelligence assigns Agent Jonathan Anders to investigate the death of another of their agents aboard a Russian trawler. When Anders gets there, he becomes involved in a contest against the Russian agents, survives an attempt on his life, and becomes aware of a Soviet plot to poison a lot of people.
Christopher Nicole
Christopher Robin Nicole is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He wrote as Christopher Nicole under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R...
written in the context of the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
and contests in international espionage between the West and the Soviet Union.
In his first novel, British intelligence assigns Agent Jonathan Anders to investigate the death of another of their agents aboard a Russian trawler. When Anders gets there, he becomes involved in a contest against the Russian agents, survives an attempt on his life, and becomes aware of a Soviet plot to poison a lot of people.