Robert Hendry: 5 books

The usual Cold War novel has a James Bond style Western agent pitted against the KGB. “To Kill Our Worthy Comrade” is a very different novel. Most of the action takes place in the USSR, but the novel depicts the rivalries that existed at the heart of Soviet power, as the Brezhnev era draws to...

Lidiya Petrova,the lovely young wife of Admiral Mikhail Petrov is used by the Kremlin as a goodwil ambassador for the USSR in the troubled 1980s. After a dangerous mission to Turkey, she is sent to Washington where Mikhail will become Soviet Ambassador. Now a mother of twin girls, Lidiya is caught...

As the Lidiya Petrova series has evolved, I have frequently gone back to the photographs I have taken of Soviet military hardware and locations such as the Project 825 underground submarine pens. It gave me a feel for the locations and events I was describing just as seeing naval infantry or Spetsnaz...

The newly married 20 y.o. Lidiya Petrova relaxes on the yacht of her husband, Admiral Mikhail Petrov, C-in-C, Black Sea Fleet. It is an idyllic life. Soon Mikhail is under arrest and Lidiya is a fugitive, as a plot to murder Yuri Andropov takes shape. The impractical 'Little Dreamer' must lose the...

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...