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MI6 previews "In Secret Service" a new fictional
thriller by Mitch Silver that centres around
a newly discovered manuscript by James Bond creator
Ian Fleming...
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In Secret Service - Preview
30th May 2007
In Secret Service - Mitch Silver
In this debut of a uniquely talented novelist, Ian Fleming's
real world of spies, love, passion, and danger is brought to life
when a young woman inherits Fleming's long-hidden account of spying
during World War II and must finish it to find out why people are
trying to kill her.
In 1964, James Bond's creator sealed
a package containing a manuscript he thought no one would
read until fifty years after his death. Ian Fleming was
an officer in Britain's Naval Intelligence during World
War II, and he had his own adventures to recount. His family
ties and his career had taken him to the upper echelons
of British and American society and espionage, a world
where passionate affairs, exotic locations, and polite
cocktail chatter were interlaced with danger, betrayal,
and deceit. He'd replicated that world in his famous novels,
but this manuscript contained a real spy story that would
explode history when its secrets were revealed. He'd chosen
the reader, and he'd have to trust she would serve the
truth.
In 2005, Amy Greenberg -- a young American academic with
a glittering future -- is summoned to Ireland to claim
the contents of her grandfather's safe deposit box, in
which she finds only one thing: a manuscript by Ian Fleming.
The pages detail Fleming's involvement in Allied spycraft
and contain information so confidential, so potentially
explosive, that Amy soon discovers that people on both
sides of the Atlantic are willing to kill to maintain its
secrecy. As she journeys back home with her precious cargo,
Amy finds herself in a race against time -- she must unlock
the manuscript's shocking and fascinating secrets and outwit
the unknown assailants who would do anything to bury the
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Above: Cover artwork for the hardback edition
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Peopled with characters including Winston Churchill, Princess
Diana, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Anthony Blunt, and
FDR and illustrated with authenticating documents, In Secret
Service is a historical mystery inside a contemporary thriller.
The debut of an exciting new writer, this book combines impeccable
research with thrilling action, in a brand-new take on espionage
suspense.
 "In
Secret Service" Official Book Website
About The Author
Mitch Silver was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. He attended Yale
and Harvard Law School ("I lasted three days. I know everything through
Wednesday, but after that..."). Mitch has been an advertising writer for
several of the big New York agencies ("I named Purina O.N.E. dog food.
Really."), and spent a year living in Paris with his wife, Ellen Highsmith
Silver, while he was European Creative Director on the Colgate-Palmolive account.
Mitch and Ellen live in Rye, New York, and have two children:
Sloane is a nurse in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Perry
is an actor and the drummer for The Fabulous Entourage band
in New York. Mitch won the American Song Festival Lyric Grand
Prize for "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed." His
blood type is O positive. In Secret Service is his first novel.
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Title: In Secret Service
Author: Mitch Silver
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Released: 22nd May 2007
R.R.P: £12.60 (UK) / $25.00 (USA)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
ISBN: 1416537945
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"A monarchy in
trouble, murderous treason, and a World War II betrayal
that resonates
into the present. The real thrill of In Secret Service
is watching this contemporary and historical tale recounted
through the fun house mirror. Enjoy the ride."
--
Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The Book of Fate
"First-time novelist Silver spins an unlikely
if entertaining tale. Silver delights in making the sometimes
improbable historical links that form the basis of his
plot, and his high spirits are so contagious that readers
will happily go along for the ride."
-- Publishers
Weekly
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