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Local author and retired RAF officer Mike Murtagh joins us to talk about his book, Spying on the Kremlin, which details the background and unintentional turning points in what has been an eventful life. Mike has had a gun stuck in his face, been seconds from a mid-air collision, been struck by lightning in an aircraft, made two emergency landings, had a sniper-sight trained on him, been the target of at least one honeytrap, nearly bled to death in India, been threatened by people working for the Azeri Mafia, worked on a movie with three Oscar-winners and may have inadvertently eaten someone...
This is a memoir of a working-class boy in an unlikely life journey from austere 1950s South Wales to the political theatre of The Kremlin and beyond, via service as an RAF Officer and as a diplomat.
Mike was born in Swansea in 1953, joining the Royal Air Force as a commissioned officer serving both at home and overseas, learning Russian along the way and serving in military intelligence across 16 years of service. After leaving the RAF, Mike went on to work as a Security Officer on a Foreign Office contract for the new British Embassy in Moscow and became a member of the Diplomatic Service serving for 10 years in the UK and India before retiring to Lincoln in 2009.
Doors open 6:30pm and the talk starts at 7pm, with the cafe-bar open from 6pm for drinks and snacks.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night, and Mike will sign copies at the end of the talk.
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The County Assembly Rooms Lincoln, 76 Bailgate,Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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