ICARUS 17

'Nobody writes more enjoyable spy thrillers than Charles Cumming’

ANTHONY HOROWITZ

‘Cumming has breathed new life into the spy novel’

BEN MACINTYRE

'The rightful inheritor of John le Carré's crown'

OBSERVER

A new thriller set in the ingenious world of Box 88, the covert intelligence service operating without government oversight.

A YOUNG COUPLE ON THE RUN

Max Radinsky thought he was living the perfect life in Athens. But when his girlfriend, Yasmine, is forced to flee the city, Max joins her on a desperate journey across Greece.

What begins as an escape becomes a fight for survival as the young couple become the targets of an international manhunt. Untrained and living off their wits, they know their luck won’t last forever…

THE SPY HUNTING THEM DOWN

Lachlan Kite, head of covert intelligence service BOX 88, hasn’t seen his former lover, Martha Raine, for more than twenty years. But when Martha begs his help in finding her missing son, Kite has no choice but to act.

What they uncover is worse than either could have imagined. Yasmine is carrying a secret which could destabilise the Middle East for a generation – and a team of merciless Israeli intelligence agents have been given orders to kill her on sight.

To save Max – and stop a global crisis – Kite and Martha must reach the young couple before their pursuers close in.

'If there was any question as to who is the rightful inheritor of John le Carré’s crown as the king of elegant spy fiction, this proves that it’s Cumming beyond any doubt' Observer

About the author

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. Shortly after university, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), an experience that inspired his first novel, A Spy by Nature. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including A Foreign Country which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year. He lives in London.