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October, 1984

On the eve of his 75th birthday, January, 1, 1987, Harold "Kim" Philby receives a hand-delivered note from the general secretary of the Communist Party. What, exactly, had Comrade Philby meant, the note inquires, by his recent comment that "the political stability of Great Britain is constantly overestimated here in Moscow ... never more so than at the present time"? And what, exactly, should be done? In the opening round of Frederick Forsyth's latest intrigue, The Fourth Pro...