The Information Officer

The novel was widely praised :-

• Laura Wilson writing in The Guardian concluded "A compelling, vividly rendered slow burn of a book which culminates in an electrifying climax."^[1]
• Daniel Mallory in the Los Angeles Times wrote, "a novel so triumphantly old-fashioned, so double-upholstered with the stuff of classics, it reads like the story of "Casablanca" revisited, like a vanished Graham Greene...this utterly ravishing third novel seethes with femmes fatale and double agents."^[2]
• Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times was also full of praise "the sense of immediacy Mark Mills brings to The Information Officer is so intense that this breathtaking novel reads more like a memoir than a wartime thriller."^[3]
• Muriel Dobbin in The Washington Times was struck by the historicity of the novel: Mark Mills "skilfully combines grim historical reality with murder in this tautly gripping mystery. His characters are deftly drawn and highlight the drama of their setting" and he "stays ahead of his readers as the plot follows its complex course, and he scatters his clues, including one notable red herring. Most memorably, his historical research offers a reminder of an often-forgotten fragment of a war."^[4]

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