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Grant Sutherland and James Steel talk to Paul Blezard

Fiction: Coldest Wars

Hay Festival 2010, 
Sutherland’s The Cobras of Calcutta offers thrilling intrigue among the Decipherers, England’s crack code-breakers warring silently against Napoleon’s intelligence agency, the Cabinet Noir. Steel’s December is a contemporary political thriller set across Russia.