The Reluctant Spy

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Worn out from years of caring, Marcia Trilling somehow finds the resolve to apply for a teaching role in a beautiful villa on the shores of Lake Garda. It’s everything she ever dreamt of, but all is not as it seems.

Why do strange things keep happening? Why does her employer, Marco Conti, look so tired and nervous and who are these people chasing him?

From his dacha outside Moscow, Chief of General Staff Sergey Verensky expects results, and Marco Conti is standing in his way. The vultures are circling and only Marcia can stop them.

Marcia finds herself drawn ever closer to the family, but when she is approached to spy on the family, she has a difficult choice to make: to become a spy or abandon them to their fate.

Legend has it that Gideon Jones was a very large baby, earning his first nickname, Samson, when he arrived in this world at Welshpool Cottage Hospital. He has lived most of his life in Wales, but since the 1970s, his family has had a home in the far west of Cornwall. After school in Penarth, he went on to read law at Cardiff University, from where he graduated with a drinker’s degree, having, on reflection, devoted more time to watching punk bands than consuming statutes.

His career in law was quickly abandoned in favour of one in the fascinating world of international credit management. This allowed him to travel the world, and the people he met and the places he went have been inspirational for his writing. He resides in Cardiff, is married, and has two wonderful adult children.