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| Author | Sarah Gainham |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Spy Thriller |
| Publisher | Eyre and Spottiswoode |
Publication date | 1959 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Stone Roses is a 1959 spy thriller novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham, known for giving the Mancunian rock band of the same name from the 1990s. [1] It is set in Prague shortly after the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. [2]
In 1948 an agent goes missing in Czechoslovakia, British spy Toby Elyat is sent in under cover as a newspaper reporter to try and locate him. Before long he is entangled with the operatives of the Soviet intelligence agency MGB.
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