The spy's wife

by Reginald Hill

Out of the blue one morning an apparently unremarkable suburban husband flees and disappears, putatively blown as a Russian agent. Molly has to make sense of a world of suddenly revealed deception round her in the past, and carve out how her future is to go.

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