In conversation with... Jeremy Duns
To celebrate the new release of Song of Treason - published this month by Simon & Schuster - author Jeremy Duns kindly agreed to answer a few questions on Book After Book . Enjoy... Hello Jeremy! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your latest release. After Free Agent , Song of Treason is the latest novel in your Paul Dark series. Can you tell us what it is about? A: Yes, Song Of Treason (which was published in hardback last year as Free Country ) is a spy novel set in Italy in 1969. It follows my protagonist, Paul Dark, a reluctant double agent, as he tries to uncover a conspiracy that threatens to alter the course of the Cold War. In the meantime, he has to avoid being killed by both the British and the Russians. Where did your interest in the Cold War era stem from? A: I’m not sure, really. I liked reading spy stories when I was young, and then enjoyed Len Deighton and John le Carré in my twenties – I even wrote one of my dissertations at university partly abo...