Jamie Smith was born and raised in Birmingham, and studied history and journalism at the University of Wales, Bangor, before working as a journalist in Wales, Australia and Warwickshire. He then bounced around London and Brighton for several years and qualified as a therapeutic counsellor. Now living in Oxfordshire with wife, Anne, and daughter, Órla, when not working or parenting, he can be found playing and watching too much sport, pottering around at his allotment, travelling and cooking (with mixed results!).
In 1981 the Soviet Union is failing, and in a country where racial tensions run high, nobody would dream of a black Russian spy, least of all their Cold War opponents, the United States of America.
