Red Fox by Anthony Hyde

Good.

Hardcover. to learn that all the real secrets are buried and that only ghosts speak the truth. So it was fitting even for me, all this began in a graveyard, among mysteries, memories, and lies.'
It was as he stood by his father's grave, on that cold October day, that Robert Thorne heard the first disturbing echo from the past. That evening there were other echoes. May Brightman, the woman Thorne once loved, called to make an extraordinary appeal for help. Her father had disappeared; she was convinced he was dead, or at the very least in danger of his life. And so Robert Thorne began his hunt for Harry Brightman; for the man, for Harry's real identity, and for the key to Thorn's own father's life and death. And there was someone else intent on discovering the truth about Brightman, so
single-mindedly that he was prepared to torture and kill with chilling savagery. Robert Thorne's quest was to introduce him into a world of deception and danger –and of deceptive and dangerous human beings: a strange doctor in Halifax, Nova Scotia; a man who loved foxes; a frightened homosexual traitor on a Paris barge; an old man with an extraordinary story eking out his life in the wastes of Karelia. These were some of the clues to the past, to a world of espionage where even the KGB trod warily, above all to the identity of the Red Fox. The Red Fox is a stunning book, meticulously researched among the shattering events of the Russian Revolution and the twists and turns of the Cold War. It is intensely dramatic and exciting. It is, above all, one of those rare novels destined to become a classic.