In conversation with PATRICK WORRALL

'An espionage story of high literary calibre' Strong Words Magazine 'A dramatic and thoroughly immersive account of loyalty, ideology and betrayal' Guardian 'A terrific new voice in spy fiction…A complex, action packed portrait of a continent in ferment’ Mail on Sunday 'In remarkably granular detail, Worrall conjures up a Fifties Paris where historical and fictional characters coexist' Sunday Times\

It's 1951 and the servants of Stalin are closing in on the occupied nations of eastern Europe. As the Red Army tightens the net, Greta - best and bravest of freedom fighters - is told to escape to the West and undertake a dangerous mission. The Exile is the stunning prequel to The Partisan, Patrick Worrall's critically-acclaimed debut, which introduced the world to the force of nature that is Greta. This is her white-knuckle ride into the black heart of postwar Europe - a terrifying world in which allies and enemies are impossible to tell apart.

Patrick Worrall grew up in Worcestershire and was educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he won a Rylands Prize for English. He has worked as a teacher in eastern Europe and Asia, a newspaper journalist, a reporter at the Old Bailey and the head of Channel 4 News's FactCheck unit. His first novel, the Partisan, is a Times bestseller and Sunday Times Thriller of the Month.