Robert de Casares

The Spy, The Renegade, The Rogue Robert de Casares

"I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to read espionage novels. It is full of action and so immersive that you'll feel like a spy yourself! The writer hasn't tried to glorify anything, and that makes the story seem real. The book is smartly written, and the story moves at a fast pace. My rating for The Spy, the Renegade, the Rogue is 4 out of 4 stars. It is not your usual spy stuff. It goes deeper than general conspiracy theories and provides a critique of the political influence on intelligence agencies." OnlineBookClub.org Official Review. BUCKLE UP. De Casares Takes You Inside British Intelligence. Gritty. Tense. Dangerous. Disguised. These are just a few of the words that come to mind as author Robert de Casares takes us on a multi-year journey that he himself took; a trip that starts from home but cannot end at home, as you will discover. Why do people become intelligence assets? You know, the newspapers call them spies. Why do they do it? Money, yes. Greed, though, can get in the way of your survival instincts. Greed motivates until you are eventually caught. Patriotism? Yes, and I dare say many youthful participants plunge into the lake of fire with patriotism and good intentions. The lake, though, can consume the swimmer and often does. Yes, there are "safe" jobs at headquarters, held by reliable people who work nine to five and don't carry any worries home with them. But field agents like the one in this novel are on the end of a tenuous tether; they must observe, plan, speculate, calculate, take risks and sometimes suffer consequences they cannot predict. In this story, the author's initial novel based on first-hand experience, we ride along as a young agent signs up to serve his country, the Soviet Union. With remarkable speed, though, and to the surprise of many, the Soviet Union begins to disintegrate. What happens when your country flies apart and your masters are suddenly unemployed or worse? Can you go home again or must you choose a new home?The best laid plans oft go astray. To thrive, our spy from Russia must become a chameleon and find new alliances and new missions. These adventures are skillfully laid out in great detail by de Casares. Agent "Dennis Antonov" will assume many personalities to survive and in the end will be in extreme jeopardy. As the USSR crumbles and is then largely sold off by opportunistic sharks, our agent swims through dangerous, unpredictable waters. Spy novel fans will soak up this compelling story, knowing that some of it?with different names and places?actually happened. A masterful storyteller, Robert de Casares is just getting started. A reader's review from Goodreads.com