Over the course of several meetings with Katya and Yakov, Barley realises his nervous informant is very likely under KGB scrutiny. He grows fond of Katya and begins thinking of a way to get her out of the Soviet Union.
Barley is content to stay out of the matter, but he is manipulated into undertaking the mission. Their Russia House is more than interested in it and ask Barley to contact Yakov with a list of verifying questions to determine the document's authenticity.
When Landau is unable to locate Barley, the manuscript is sent to the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Katya gives the package to Niki Landau to forward it to Barley. The manuscript has a cover letter to Barley, saying that Yakov is trying to serve his country by hastening the day when democracy will come to the Soviet Union. Several months later in Moscow, a woman named Katya seeks Barley out at an audio fair, hoping to convince him to publish a manuscript for her friend Yakov which details Soviet nuclear capabilities and atomic secrets. One attentive listener, "Goethe", asks him privately whether he truly believes in the possibility of such a world. When their talk turns to politics, Barley finds himself talking boldly of patriotism and courage, of a new world order, and an end to Cold War tensions. With business friends he goes on a drunken retreat to a secluded dacha in the forest near Peredelkino. In 1987, Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair, a British publisher, is at a book fair in Moscow. The BBC produced a radio play starring Tom Baker. A film based on the novel was released in 1990 starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, and directed by Fred Schepisi. The title refers to the nickname given to the portion of the British Secret Intelligence Service that was devoted to spying on the Soviet Union. The Russia House is a spy novel by British writer John le Carré published in 1989.
0 kommentar(er)
