Remarkedly assured debut ... the advent of a real talent...One to watch Sunday TimesImmersive intriguing and intelligent incredibly impressive up there with the best in the genre Lee ChildIt is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous.Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain Yulia and Michael meet at a chess tournament in London. They dont know it but they are about to compete in the deadliest game ever played.Shadowing them is Greta a ruthless resistance fighter who grew up the hard way in the forests of Lithuania but who is now hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world.Men who are also on the radar of Vassily perhaps the Soviet Unions greatest spymaster. A man of cunning and influence Vassily was Yulias minder during her visit to the West but even he could not foresee the consequences of her meeting Michael.When the world is accelerating towards an inevitable and catastrophic conflict what can just four people do to prevent itEpic in scope The Partisan is a thrill ride like no other taking you from the hallowed halls of Cambridge to the grimy depths of the Moscow underworld from 1960s London to the Eastern Front in the Second World War.