Faber & Faber

Making Enemies: Francis Bennett

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Synopsis:

Making Enemies is the first volume in Francis Bennett's Cold War trilogy, which is being reissued in Faber Finds.

It centres around the race for the hydrogen bomb in 1947, a deadly global game of institutionalized deceit and lies in which human life is the cheapest commodity of all. Brilliantly evoking the paranoid and mutual mistrust of those early days of the Cold War this novel was widely acclaimed on first publication. One critic said, 'Le Carre could not have done it better.' For Michael Hartland it was the thriller of the year.

The best, longest and most considered review was by Phillip Knightley (author of The Second Oldest Profession) who said variously 'only a novelist could explain what it was like to live for so many years in the shadow of nuclear annihilation ... Yet it is more than the intelligent reader's spy thriller and comparisons with other spy writers do not do it justice ...' [read review in full]

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Categorised as:

Fiction

Sub-categories:

Crime & Thrillers

Genres & Themes:

Cold War; Espionage; Faber Finds; Paranoia; Suspense

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