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Resonant thriller on the machinations of the Malvinas war
British warships heading off towards the Malvinas

South Atlantic Requiem
by Edward Wilson
(Arcadia Books, £14.99)

HE'S certainly done it again. Edward Wilson has breathed new life into his leftist British spook William Catesby who, in South Atlantic Requiem, appears once more at the epicentre of another crisis.

 

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