Travelling to Tincup

This book charts the life and death of an Englishman, Simon Maitland, who was introduced to the Cold War world of intelligence-gathering at an early age and who subsequently developed an obsessive though amateur interest in that shadowy craft. He was also a passionate angler, and his two main interests eventually interact to set the scene - at Tincup Fishing Lodge in Canada's northerly territory of The Yukon - for his death in 1995.
The book is mainly in the form of a narrative written by an acquaintance of Simon who reconstructs the story from the latter's diaries. Action shifts between England, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Canada. The settings and social environments used in the book are all authentic as are the descriptions of military equipment and intelligence-gathering methods.