The Quiet Dogs
It’s time to bring their man home.
Just as the Soviets recruited Philby in the 1930s, so British Intelligence suborned a young Russian boy during the days of the British Mission to Russia at the end of World War One.
Over the decades that boy has grown to be the main British asset within the clandestine world. The secret of his identity has been handed down from one Director General of British Intelligence to the next. ‘Stentor’, as he is coded, now occupies a place of prime importance within the First Chief Directorate of the KGB.
But he is an old man, ready for retirement. It is time for the Herbie Kruger to fulfil an old promise and bring the Russian to England and a home he has never seen…
In The Quiet Dogs John Gardner again provides a skilfully constructed thriller, as intriguing, exciting and detailed in character as its widely acclaimed predecessors.
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John Gardner
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a clergyman. He briefly attended Cottham’s Preparatory School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1931, and after the family had moved to Wantage in Berkshire in 1933, King Alfred’s School 1934–1943. He joined the Home Guard at the start of the Second World War and in 1943 the Royal Marines. He left the army four years later as his father wanted him to read theology. He earned his BA at St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1950 and completed his degree at Oxford. Gardner was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1953.
Herbie Kruger
Herbie Kruger consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
