A Story of Love, Intrigue and The KGB

      by

      1 Owen Jones

      Copyright © August 14^th, 2020 Owen Jones

      Fuengirola, Spain.

      The right of Owen Jones to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      In this work of fiction, the characters and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or they are used entirely fictitiously. Some places may exist, but the events are completely fictitious.

      Andropov’s Cuckoo

      A Story of Love, Intrigue and The KGB

      By Owen Jones

      Published by Megan Publishing Services

      at Megan’s Market

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      This edition is dedicated to my wife, Pranom Jones, for making my life as easy as she can - she does a great job of it.

      Karma will repay everyone in just kind.

      Believe not in anything simply because you have heard it,

      Believe not in anything simply because it was spoken and rumoured by many,

      Believe not in anything simply because it was found written in your religious texts,

      Believe not in anything merely on the authority of teachers and elders,

      Believe not in traditions because they have been handed down for generations,

      But after observation and analysis, if anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, accept it and live up to it.

      Gautama Buddha

      ––

      Great Spirit, whose voice is on the wind, hear me. Let me grow in strength and knowledge.

      Make me ever behold the red and purple sunset. May my hands respect the things you have given me.

      Teach me the secrets hidden under every leaf and stone, as you have taught people for ages past.

      Let me use my strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.

      Let me always come before you with clean hands and an open heart, that as my Earthly span fades like the sunset, my Spirit shall return to you without shame.

      (Based on a traditional Sioux prayer)

       1 William Davies

       2 Yui Mizuki

       3 Natalya Petrovna

       4 Summer 1967

       5 Yuri Vladimirovitch Andropov

       6 Operation Youriko

       7 The Plan is Afoot

       8 The KGB

       9 The Daily Grind

      10 The Holiday

      11 Lubyanka

      12 Gulag Archipelago

      13 A New Job

      14 Leningrad 1978

      15 Mushy-Brained and Gooey-Eyed

      16 Sochi, Krasnodarskaya Krai

      17 The Full Bottle

      18 The Mule Train

      19 The Last Leg

      20 Cheltenham

      21 Epilogue

      22 Afterword

       Dead Centre – Chapter One

       About the Author