Brian Harry Freemantle (10 June 1936 – 23 December 2024) was an English thriller and non-fiction writer, known for his 1977 spy novel Charlie Muffin.
[2] In April that year, he organised the sole British-led airlift rescue of South Vietnamese civilians during the Fall of Saigon, assisting in the evacuation of 100 orphans, of whom Viktoria Cowley was one, aged approximately 18 months.
In 1989, Brian appeared in the television documentary Borders, alongside Michio Kaku, Steve Buscemi, Margaret Randall, and Robert Anton Wilson.
[3] In his interview, he discusses transnational crime, border security, narcotics smuggling, and his experiences being banned from the former Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union.
[6] [7] Charlie Muffin, English spy, contends with the Russians and his superiors during the Cold War and moving to modern times.