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Synopsis: KGB agent Major Valeri Petrofsky has been reassigned at the request of the KGB Chairman for a secret mission wherein he is sent to England to establish a residence near an American military base and receive various items from couriers from the USSR. John Preston is the top British spy catcher, currently at odds with his superior because he doesn't lick his boots. After he conducts an operation without his superior's permission caused his superior some embarrassment, he is reassigned to the menial task of overseeing airports and ports. One day one the couriers Petrofsky was expecting comes off a freighter has an accident which leaves him dead. Preston is informed by the pathologist that the man is not a seaman so Preston goes through his things and finds that he was carrying something which he is told is an atomic bomb component. Preston now suspects that someone is bringing in parts for an atomic bomb, his superior doesn't want to let Preston be proven right so he doesn't authorize fur
Genre: Thriller
Director(s): John Mackenzie
Production: Lorimar Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
R
Year:
1987
119 min
393 Views


Oh my God!

Just your

and your schoolboy politics...

And your idiotically conceited faith

in your own importance.

Now some of our more muscular

colleagues favour taking you to a cell

and going to work on you with

a carving knife and a pair of pliers.

The rest would like to feed you

to the newspapers and throw what's left

into prison for 20 years.

It's a tricky choice, isn't it?

However this is what you will do.

You will resume

your "special relationship" with Moscow

Only this time I shall be suplying

the papers. Understand?

Then later when we're finished

we can decide what to do with you.

I'm very grateful, Nigel.

Good operation. Damn good.

The turning of Berenson?

No. The false flag recruitment,

the way he was run.

Very clever.

I've been thinking it reminds me

of someone...

Who?

General Yevgeni Sergeivitch Karpov,

Deputy Head KGB...

Sort of your opposite number, then?

You could say that, yes.

I shall enjoy feeding him

a few wrong turns for a change.

The well-known Kremlin watcher

we also have

with us Colonal K who quit Moscow

to come to the West last year Colonel,

who's now the leader

of the minority hard line group

in the Politburo?

Certainly it would be a KGB chief,

Govorshin.

How secure would you say he is?

You know, Govorshin is in

a very delicate situation unless comes

some change in world power balance

to justify his his hard line policies.

You talk about a hard line, I...

KGB Chief, Govorshin.

How secure would you say he is?

Govorshin is in

a delicate situation unless comes

some change in world power balance...

General Karpov?

General Borisov on line one.

General Borisov.

General Karpov.

Pavel Petrovich, how are you?

Fine. I need to talk to you.

Yes?

It's serious. Can we meet today?

Well, where are you?

I'm out of town. I'm fishing.

All right,

I'll drive out this afternoon.

Good. Good.

Natasha, I won't be back after lunch.

I'll call your driver.

No. I'll drive myself.

Karpov my friend.

That was quick.

How are you?

I'm good. I'm good.

Bistovia.

Yevgeni Sergeivitch how long have

we known each other?

Get to the point Pavel Petrovitch.

Why are you stripping my department?

Why am I what?!

Stripping me clean.

Everyday something new is taken from me

First, the very best agent

we have specialising

in Britain Major Valeri Petrofsky.

And then, a forged life story

meticulously maintained over the years

a legend that fits Valeri Petrofsky

like a glove.

Where do you want me to stop?

Couriers,

their documentations radio men

and then the coding crystals

for that sleeper transmitter

you yourself planted when you were head

of the KGB in London.

What the hell

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Frederick Forsyth

Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, former journalist and spy, and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List. Forsyth's works frequently appear on best-sellers lists and more than a dozen of his titles have been adapted to film. He has sold more than 70 million books in total. more…

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