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Title: A step off the path
Review: Anthony Price wrote a highly literate, historically informed, well plotted series of espionage novels focused on an imaginery branch of the British Security Service. However, this is the weakest of the lot. Straying away from the British protagonists he wrote about so sympathetically and honestly in the other books of the series, two American CIA operatives are the center of the plot. They are not portrayed unfairly or in a mean way - there is just not the tone of inner truth about them that resounds so much in his other characters. Somehow the plot seem half hearted as well. If you must skip one of this long series of short novels on the themes of the entanglement of past, present, and future and the meaning of loyalty, this would be the one. If this is your first look for a Price novel do go read the others - they are fine pieces of work.
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