Excellent.

A Matter of Honour (1986) is a stand alone novel by the great story teller.

In 1966 disgraced British colonel Gerald Scott bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son, Adam Scott. …

It leads Adam to the only official Russian copy of a secret codice to the Alaska Purchase treaty by which the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867.

“Seward’s Folly” turns out to have not been a true purchase at all, but a 99-year lease akin to the British hold on Hong Kong, with a right of return to Russia (now part of the Soviet Union) if they can only retrieve their copy before the lease deadline, only days away.

Adam is chased across Europe by the Russians, Americans, and French. And he’s no longer sure he can even trust the British.

Good fun.

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