The third book in Charles Cumming's gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 - a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar.
1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide,24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend,Martha Raine,are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control,forcing Kite to make choices which will have devastating consequences not only for his career at top-secret intelligence agency BOX 88,but also for his relationship with Martha.
2023: Eric Appiah,an old friend from Kite's days at school and an off-the-record BOX 88 asset,makes contact with explosive information about what happened all those years ago in West Africa. When tragedy strikes,Kite must use all his resources to bring down a criminal network with links to international terror...and protect Martha from possible assassination.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008363512Number of pages: 336Weight: 550 gDimensions: 240 x 159 x 30 mm
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Praise for Charles Cumming:
'The storytelling is first-rate,with all the minutiae of spycraft,sense of place and memorable supporting characters you could wish for.'- The Sunday Times
'Tense and topical,this has all you could want from an intelligent contemporary spy thriller.'- The Times
'Superbly constructed,it never hurries,but evokes the world of espionage in a way the late John le Carre would have much admired.'- The Daily Mail
Charles Cumming
Hailed as one of the best contemporary writers of spy fiction,Charles Cumming is a British novelist and the author of the bestselling Box 88.
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