A Perfect Spy traces the rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Washington and finally on the run in England Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage. Where no-one is safe from betrayal, not even his father.
In the 1930s, young Magnus Pym is baffled when his adored father Rick disappears and he and his mentally ailing mother have to live with her brutal and puritanical brother. In fact, his father has been imprisoned for fraud, and when his mother is confined to a mental hospital, Magnus must survive as best he can - and learns quickly how to be devious.—greenf74