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Buster Crabb was a hero – but he was going to have to die…
The world’s most famous frogman, and the inspiration behind Ian Fleming’s Thunderball, Crabb was underneath a Russian warship spying on Nikita Khrushchev – the most dangerous man in the world.
No one cared if he lived or died.
Worse than that, the dive was pointless. Prime Minister Anthony Eden had forbidden it.
Nobody wanted it to happen.
Nobody, that is, except for MI6.
Nick Elliott, head of the London station, saw it as a mighty coup – and his dear friend Kim Philby thought so too.
Crabb was too old for this – he was a 47-year-old diabetic with a major drinking problem, who smoked a hundred cigarettes a day.
But known as the Robber Barons, this gung-ho mafia of the rich persuaded Crabb out of retirement for one last job.
But it would seem that Philby is not to be trusted and the Russians were waiting for him, deep in the cold and murky waters of Portsmouth Harbour.
When Crabb fails to return from his mission an epic cover-up ensues - one that is still going on to this day.
More than a year after the dive a body is found – headless and handless – but his mother swears to her dying day it is not Crabb.
Rumours are epidemic. Conspiracies are rife. Someone knows what happened, but nobody is willing to talk.
And the archives on the mystery of his death, in defiance of the Thirty Year rule, remain tightly closed.
That is until a hundred years have passed and it’s 2057…
In Too Deep is a gripping nautical thriller, overflowing with political corruption, espionage and deadly secrets that are guaranteed to set your pulse racing.
Jan Needle has had more than forty books published, including the best-selling Napoleon The Escape, Death Order, and the Charlie Raven Adventures.
In Too Deep A Single edition by Jan Needle Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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In Too Deep A Single edition by Jan Needle Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
This is another cracker from Jan Needle. He writes with a great depth of psychological understanding, which makes all his characters three dimensional, people you end up caring deeply about despite their faults and weaknesses.
This story takes real events and puts the veneer of fiction on them, as he imagines the last days of Navy diver Lionel 'Buster' Crabb. Shame on me, I had never heard of Crabb. This story puts flesh and blood on the bare bones Google will give you. We are whisked back to the days after the war, when characters like Ian Fleming flitted in and out of MI5, writing books on the side, and the Cambridge Five walked the corridors of power. There is a gritty realism about this cold war story that brings me back to the great thriller writers of yore. A claustrophobic veil of doom pervades the whole book, as we see the net closing in on Crabb. Will the Soviets get him? Will his own side let him down? Will his failing health hold long enough for one final mission? Whatever you do, don't google the outcome. Read this book and enjoy the journey.
I highly recommend this for thriller lovers and espionage fans. And for anyone who just likes a good read.
In Too Deep by Jan Needle
This is a quick, highly entertaining read and will appeal to different audiences. For those who know nothing or little of the background to the true story of Buster Crabb, it’s a short, fast-moving combination of spying, crime, adventure and political power games, told in an unadorned, muscular vernacular. The characters are skilfully drawn, express their opinions in a no-holds-barred way and, with few exceptions, somehow conspire to let the whole adventure go ahead without doing too much to prevent it.
However, those familiar with the history of 20th century Britain and particularly with this embarrassing episode, which occurred back in the time of Anthony Eden, will enjoy the greater complexity Needle achieves. His take on the story and his insertion of characters such as Bond creator Ian Fleming, Eden himself, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and others into it gives him scope for plenty of tongue in cheek descriptions of meetings, conversations and examples of the incompetence of those overtly in control. There’s nothing gratuitous about it; those people were around, actually occupying the positions of authority and power he describes. But his hindsight and sense of humour gives him plenty of scope for satire, which he uses to great effect. Anthony Blunt’s predilections earn him the title of ‘Queen Mother’, the little cameo of Ian Fleming reveals him to be an unpleasant writer of ‘penny dreadfuls’, and I hope very sincerely that the source Needle identifies for the title of his story for children, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, is true.
Beyond all this, though, the timing of this publication must be deliberate. Back then, as now, Old Etonians were in charge and the British class system was solidly entrenched. The strange assumption that an Etonian education prepares one for high office is subtly questioned here as all those responsible for the disaster of the whole Crabb episode show themselves as ill-informed incompetents who hurry to shift the blame onto others, who, naturally, are further down the pecking order. Needle is too subtle a writer to make any direct comparisons or references, but the parallels between this escapade and events of the past few months are blatant.
So it’s a good, lively read but at its centre there’s the bitter and still relevant truth that those at the top play their little games and care little for the victims who have to live, and die, with the consequences.
Review of “In Too Deep” a novella by Jan Needle
This novella, a work of creative non-fiction, details the events surrounding the disappearance and presumed death of British frogman Lionel “Buster” Crabb in 1956. The most startling fact related by the British author Jan Needle, is the egregious security breach by the London station chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, (MI 6 to you spy novel fans) when he tells Kim Philby of all people, of his plan to send a diver to spy on Soviet naval ships docked in Portsmouth Harbor. The vessels were carrying Nikita Khrushchev and Nicolai Bulganin on an official state visit to Britain. Philby was of course, a Soviet mole planted on the British many years before, but by 1956 no longer had official status with the government. MI 5 (the internal security service) suspected him of espionage but the nabobs in “6” would not hear of it. The SIS officer had no idea of the depth of Philby’s treachery but in any event security protocol forbids divulging operational plans with anyone no longer authorized to have them. Perhaps I’m giving too much away about this short but riveting book but I couldn’t restrain my horror at the smugness and superciliousness of someone like a high-ranking officer in MI 6 so deeply entrusted with people’s lives and national security.
This is a gritty and absorbing tale wherein the dialogue among the characters is recreated from the author’s research and fertile imagination. Crabb, a WWII frogman well past his prime and in poor health, is cynically chivvied into a mission no one should have been asked to perform and doomed from the start since Agent Peach (Philby) alerted the Russians in advance. The ill-fated Commander Crabb was cajoled into the mission despite the express orders of the Prime Minister forbidding it. There’s no surprise ending to the plot. I recommend it just for the hard-boiled dialogue and insight into the devious machinations of an espionage service gone rogue.
I found this book to be a good read. The story was interesting. It was written ok but used a lot of dialogue with British slang.
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