Red Fox

Shadows Over the Iron Curtain

Gerald Seymour’s Red Fox plunges readers into a labyrinth of Cold War subterfuge, where loyalties shift as swiftly as the Berlin Wall’s guarded checkpoints. When British intelligence officer Alan White is dispatched to West Berlin on the trail of a vanished Soviet informant codenamed “Red Fox,” he finds himself ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Between clandestine meetings in crumbling East German tenements and high‐speed chases along the autobahn, White must navigate layers of betrayal that threaten not only his mission, but the fragile détente between superpowers.

Between Double Agents and Dead Ends

Seymour masterfully populates his thriller with a cast of morally ambiguous characters: the enigmatic “Ms. Krüger,” whose allegiances remain obscured by half‐truths; an ex‐Stasi handler haunted by past atrocities; and a retired RAF pilot drawn back into the fray by debts he cannot repay. As White deciphers coded messages scrawled on torn KGB memos, every lead seems designed to misdirect. With the clock ticking toward a high‐stakes summit in Bonn, he must untangle a web of forged documents, secret rendezvous, and hidden safe houses—each revelation exposing how power and paranoia intertwine in the service of ideology.

The Last Echo of Deception

In a heart‐racing climax set amid the ruins of a deserted Cold War bunker on the East German border, White confronts the true identity of Red Fox—and the shocking purpose behind the informant’s disappearance. As echoes of gunfire blend with the howling wind, he must decide whether to uphold his sworn duty or risk everything by exposing the truth. With its unrelenting pacing, razor‐sharp dialogue, and authentic period detail, Red Fox reaffirms Gerald Seymour’s reputation as a master of espionage fiction—where the greatest danger often springs from within. Author’s description.