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The Spy Who Swapped Shoes (Stephen Fletcher Espionage Thrillers Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Geoffrey Davison (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A chilling Cold War thriller! Perfect for fans of Len Deighton, John Le Carre, Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming.

A deadly game of cat and mouse — but who has the upper hand?


Eastern Europe, 1964



Three men and a woman are seated in a train carriage travelling from Istanbul to Vienna.

As they cross the Bulgarian border, a fourth man enters and joins them.

That man ends up dead.

The other passengers get to work transforming a British agent into a Soviet spy – taking the dead man’s clothes and stealing his identity.

Under hypnosis, the British agent must forget all memories of his past. That life is gone, and he is now Comrade Dimitri Nickovitch.

But will the months of training be enough? Can the British agent infiltrate the Soviet camp?

Or could this foray through the Iron Curtain be his last…?

THE SPY WHO SWAPPED SHOES is the first classic international Cold War mystery in the Stephen Fletcher espionage thrillers series: intriguing political double-dealing spread over Europe and the Middle East.

THE STEPHEN FLETCHER ESPIONAGE THRILLER SERIES:
Book One: The Spy Who Swapped Shoes
Book Two: Nest of Spies
Book Three: The Chessboard Spies
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    The Stephen Fletcher Thriller series
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  4. Publication date
    July 1, 2019
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07TS9JWPH
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sapere Books (July 1, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.2 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 212 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 191302895X
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • Awesome Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars This book brought back many memories of the Cold War era
    Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2019
    The Spy Who Swapped Shoes by Geoffrey Davison was received direct from the publisher.  I had not read a Cold War era spy novel in many years and this one was interesting from the very beginning, with no slow build up that many authors use to build words counts or whatever nowadays.  Having been born and raised and spending much time training to defeat the Soviet Empire, which we did.  This book brought back many memories of the era, an era that many alive now could only imagine, wrongly unless they read books like this.  One thing though, the enemy at the time never seemed as smart as the enemy described in this book.  If you, or someone you buy books for, enjoys Cold War spy books or would like to read about that time, certainly give this book a read.  This book is also the first of a series starring the lead character.

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  • Geraldine Cosentino
    3.0 out of 5 stars Cold war espionage
    Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2019
    The opening chapters of The Spy Who Swapped Shoes by Geoffrey Davison are riveting. In 1964, he English secret service suspects there is a mole high up in government passing secrets to the Russians. An English spy, Stephen Fletcher is swapped on a train for a Russian secret agent, sent to a Russian hidden training camp with several others to learn to impersonate English citizens in order to get close to an English Cabinet minister who may or may not be a Russian sympathiser. The remainder of the book reads like the plot for a spy film: Russian agents posing as English, an English journalist and various cabinet personnel who may or may not be Russian agents, the English double agent suspected by the Russians, a murder. With the right cast and director the book would make a terrific film. Unfortunately, what constitutes a good film doesn't always translate to a good book. The Spy Who Swapped shoes is plot driven, not too much differentiation of the characters, just good and bad. There's also a romance thrown in, just in case.
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  • Dr Rose
    3.0 out of 5 stars Spy story
    Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019
    This is reminiscent of the cold war stories made popular by LeCarre. If you liked those spy thrillers than you will like this one too. It was enjoyable to read about how the Russians and the British battled wits without the use of high technology, just using their minds and cunning ways to outsmart each other. This reminded me of a black and white film!
    It was a fast and easy read without lots of difficult terms or names, and the main character of Fletcher is an easy to like person.
    An good read.
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  • VEdwards
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fast-Paced Spy Thriller
    Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2019
    I don't normally read spy stories, but I was hooked on The Spy Who Swapped Shoes from the very first page. The story moved quickly and the thrill kept up to the very last page. I would definitely read more stories by Geoffrey Davison.
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  • Annette Johnson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Spy thriller
    Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019
    A well written spy espionage type thriller. This really isn’t my type of book but I thought it was good and fast paced! I enjoyed it!
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  • C Cooke
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good fast paced story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2023
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    A good story line moving along at a good pace. The author is on solid ground when discussing events occurring in the UK but a lot of small errors appear when talking about daily activities behind the iron curtain.
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  • Sean Gibbons
    5.0 out of 5 stars The spy thriller is thriving...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2019
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    In this tale of Stephen Fletcher's deeds we are transported back to a time redolent of the greatest spy thrillers and introduced to a character who wouldn't be out of place among the great heroes of the genre. The story is inventive and well-written. You never see what's coming next, which is as it should be in a stand-out spy thriller such as this. Atmosphere and period detail are well-rendered. The story's fictional status is always in doubt, another hallmark of a classic spy thriller - one part of you knows it didn't happen, but the other, more engaged part of you, is prepared to believe it did. I'll certainly be reading more Stephen Fletcher stories.
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  • Phildog
    3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but not captivating
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2021
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    The book had great development of characters, both likeable,e and not. The downside of the character development was it did not allow the plot to develop. A great start and an intriguing set up for the main section of the book, it was almost there but not quite.

    Still worth a read and a look back at a different era.
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  • M. Newell
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what you are led to believe, but a worthwhile read anyway
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2019
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    As soon as i saw the headline likening this to Le Carre, i'm sure that like many others, i clicked the BUY button.
    I'm glad i did, because although this is not in the same league as Le Carre et al, (it is a few divisions below to be honest), it was an enjoyable book.
    As some other reviewers have mentioned, the over use of exclamation marks is a bit annoying - they are totally unnecessary in the way the author used them. However, the plot was good, the characters not bad, and it definitely grabbed me until the end.
    If you like spy novels, then give it a go, you only have a pound or so to lose.....
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  • TDC
    2.0 out of 5 stars Lacking in depth
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2019
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    Only two stars for this disappointing book. As soon as Le Carre is mentioned in the blurb you know that's shorthand for knowing that it won't be anything like it. I quite like a book series where the characters can be developed - the ones in this one need to be and fast. The plot line is preposterous as are the stereotypical characters and it all reminded me of a 1960's B movie.
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