by Campbell Armstrong · Grafton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586215111
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«Brainfire» is the spy novel by Campbell Armstrong, published by Grafton in paperback (416 pages, in English).
After the death of his brother, a political adviser who falls from his room in a hotel in the Soviet Union, the protagonist investigates what happened. His search for the truth leads him to a Soviet mind-control conspiracy and a web of deceit and international espionage.
The novel was originally published in 1979; this Grafton paperback edition is from 1991. The cover mentions that the author wrote Jig and Mambo.
Recommended for readers of spy thrillers set in the Soviet Union.
Campbell Armstrong was born Thomas Campbell Black and was a Scottish author who graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Sussex, England. He taught creative writing from 1971 to 1974 at the State University of New York at Oswego; from 1975 to 1978 he taught at Arizona State University. He worked for some years as a fiction editor with various London publishing houses. After living for many years in England and the United States, he moved to Shannon Harbour, Ireland. He died on 1 March 2013.
