The Man Who Heard Too Much

In this 10th installation of The November Man series, Bill Granger has come up with one of his best yarns. At a US/Soviet summit in Switzerland, a tape recording of the secret conversations winds up in the hands of an American freelance translator. After the tape is "accidentally" left in his luggage by a hotel clerk, the translator listens to the tape during a long train ride and learns of its secrets. As all sides converge on the man and his lover, the chase for control of the tape intensifies. Enter Deveroux/November. He is sent by R Section to find the tape and encounters nemesis Henry McGee, who has managed to escape from Federal Prison in a very well written passage. As in all November Man novels, the line between good and is blurred to an ambiguous grey. There are really no good guys in Granger's world of intrigue, only differing agendas. In the all-out hunt for the tape unholy alliances emerge out of necessity as Deveroux must sort of cooperate with McGee. In the end all that matters to the powers that be is the covering of their own asses. This novel covers so much in its 264 pages that it's hard to explain it all. To sum it up I have to say it was one of the most interesting looks into the mind of the iconoclast that is agent Deveroux a.k.a The November Man.