Dads ‘N’ Lads
Prodigal Spy by Joseph
Kanon
Published by Abacus, 1999
In the 1950s Walter Kotlar, loyal believer in the American dream, defected to Russia. Devastated by his actions his family rebuilt their lives on the pretence that he was dead.
Twenty years later he proves to be very much alive and he wants to see his son. Nick is horrified, but intrigued, and embarks on a clandestine mission to Czechoslovakia to find a man who wants to be allowed to come home.
`Brilliantly captures the burgeoning coldwar paranoia' Observer.
