Kate Henderson passes for an ordinary civil servant with a husband and children at home, which is exactly the cover a senior MI6 officer needs when the intelligence she is holding could bring down a government.
Her latest operation has turned up two pieces of information that cannot both be left alone: the British Prime Minister is seriously ill, and one of the favourites to replace him may be working in Russian interests. The novel runs on a tightening clock, with a leadership contest closing in, a marriage under strain and a service in which nobody can be fully trusted. Espionage and domestic pressure are kept in the same frame throughout, so the cost of the job lands at home as hard as it does in the field.
What this book does well:
• A protagonist whose family life is part of the plot rather than background
• Contemporary geopolitics driving the stakes instead of period nostalgia
• A mole hunt structured around a political timetable that will not wait
• The source of a television adaptation, for readers who like to compare
For readers of modern espionage fiction and political thrillers who want tradecraft grounded in present-day stakes. Available at Boipoka.
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