I and My True Love

American diplomat Payton Pleydell and his wife Sylvia are the most respected, brilliant couple in Washington. Theirs seems a perfect marriage, but Kate Jerold begins to suspect that her cousin’s husband is not as devoted as he seems. Then the unexpected arrival of a Czech official threatens to bring the façade crashing down. Even after six years apart, Sylvia has not forgotten Jan Brovic; during the war they had been deeply, secretly in love. But now there is a new war, and former allies have become bitter enemies. Jan is on the other side and his motives may not be pure.

Separated by the enmity of nations, Sylvia must decide whether to risk everything to be with the man she loves.

©2014 Helen MacInnes (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

A powerful and painful story of the victims of Cold War and human weekend

This is one of Helen macinisses most difficult novels. The reader is given a brutal glimpse at the workings of Cold War political and economic espionage and disinformation and how the worst weaknesses of human nature make it easy to perpetuate cruelty and destruction. It’s a page turner with an unbelievably powerful ending.

Just didn’t like it

My least liked of the Helen Mac Innes stories. I found this very hard to listen to. Sad story, unloveable characters, stupid dialogue and a reader whose voice and enunciation seemed really unnatural.