The Translator (Crawley novel)

The Translator is a 2023 spy thriller novel by British novelist Harriet Crawley. After a decades-long silence, the author delights with all her convincing in-detail knowledge of life in Russia.

After a long time, Clive Franklin, a British interpreter meets Marina Volina, an old-time Russian colleague. A romance full of suspense moves on among the neverending presence of the FSB, while Franklin devotes himself all the time to control whatever the other side hears.