The Man Who Was Saturday

The Man Who Was Saturday
Derek Lambert

A classic Cold War spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.Moscow treated defectors from the West with kid-gloves. That is, until they had outlived their usefulness. But the American Robert Calder was different. He had defected to Russia with information so explosive that even the iron-clad regime of the Kremlin shook with fear. It had kept him alive. Until now. For Calder is desperately keen to return to the West. So they place the ruthless and scheming Spandarian on his trail, a KGB chief with a mind as sharp as the cold steel of an ice pick. And as a back-up they unleash Tokarev, a professional assassin who kills for pleasure…‘Certainly puts Lambert up there with today’s top suspense writers’ Book Browsing‘Mr Lambert’s Moscow experience comes chillingly through’ Sunday Telegraph‘This terrific novel puts Lambert in a league with the best espionage writers of the day’ United Press International‘Another winner’ Pittsburgh Press‘Lambert is at the top of the class’ UPI‘Splendid stuff. Mr Lambert’s scenes have the clear reality of a Moscow winter, his people are three-dimensional and affecting and best of all he spins a fast story’ Baltimore Sun‘A white-knuckle number … Lambert produces straight-ahead, foot-to-the-floor excitement’ New York, New York‘Superior espionage fiction’ Waterbury Ct. Republican

The Man Who Was Saturday

DEREK LAMBERT

(with apologies to the memory of G.K. Chesterton whose man was Thursday)

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DEDICATION (#ulink_1a0245a9-904b-52fe-9cd5-4e850088130c)

To Roger and Lise.

EPIGRAPH (#ulink_bcab3143-154a-5171-aabf-3459d4dfb9e8)

‘… for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and evil events that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it …’

Benjamin Franklin

CONTENTS

Cover (#u247f7b77-b378-5d6d-9fe1-f86c5f8d9cf8)

Title Page (#u51c0c855-d46e-5ecb-ae84-dd5c89a25fdd)

Copyright (#ulink_77dbfd4e-8ba4-5a0b-a2a5-b9a02cf859de)

Dedication (#ulink_1d1b0d31-a2b1-5ee9-9edd-8e2d9b86b553)

Epigraph (#ulink_f103fd8f-c12d-5f2d-ae67-b01639e0d521)

Opening (#ulink_a8073eec-a142-5643-826e-4bb37b84f7f5)

Chapter 1 (#ulink_a72fe751-1ccb-59af-9d6a-1804cf7d7e74)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_25063ef6-7c95-508f-b98f-03d53a0cce13)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_20a6e0ff-5489-5b92-8839-5a07522c8439)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_df8ce5b2-c091-5055-817a-b22003d691be)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_c6c85215-a4de-5d26-9336-fd528c6f8aaa)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_1357869a-dfeb-5cbd-9cc1-fda2de98d78d)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_920d2fd6-e90a-5094-8b55-5e8956e6e322)

Chapter 8 (#ulink_7114f12c-5314-56ad-ae8c-2d6ae3bf47f5)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Adjournment (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)