A Spy Like Me
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- 16,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
The stunning new spy thriller that blows the world of James Bond wide open!
*A Finalist for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize: Scottish Crime Book of the Year*
Six days.
A bomb goes off at the BBC. But this is just the beginning. In six days' time, terrorists will strike again.
Three agents.
With James Bond captured, three of MI6's toughest Double O agents race from Venice to Afghanistan to Dubai to stop the terror.
One chance to find James Bond.
As the Double Os close in, they find themselves unexpectedly inching closer to 007. Now the race is on to stop the terrorists – and save Britain’s finest spy.
What readers are saying about A Spy Like Me
‘Reading A Spy Like Me is just like being immersed in the world of Bond, with travel, gadgets and glamour galore’
‘I gasped aloud at the ending – be prepared for a thunderbolt!!’
‘Wow! What a fantastic, gripping read this was. Pure Bond from start to finish. I’m blown away by how good this book was!’
‘Immensely enjoyable, a real joy to read and difficult to put down’
‘This story moves between a number of different locations and certainly keeps the readers turning the pages’
‘A fabulously written gripping story that was a pleasure to read’
‘Action packed from the very first page to the very last page’
‘you get an excellent world tour in some truly out of this world locations from the comfort of your armchair’
‘Wow this book grips you from page one and keeps you on a rollercoaster for the whole book’
‘Pure escapist fiction’
‘A non-stop whirl of espionage and great fun, with a killer cliffhanger ending’
About the author
Kim Sherwood is a novelist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her award-winning debut novel Testament was released in 2018, and in 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. A Wild & True Relation, following a woman who joins a smugglers’ crew in eighteenth-century Devon, was published by Virago in 2023. A Spy Like Me is the second in a series of Double O novels expanding the James Bond universe.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the bang-up second volume of Sherwood's Double O trilogy (after Double or Nothing), James Bond is still missing in action—and that's the least of MI6's worries. After a bombing in London nearly kills Dodger Macintyre, Agent 008, the quantum AI program known as Q determines that exorbitant auctions at Sotheby's often presage such terrorist attacks by six days, with the winning bids funneled to Rattafänger, the ruthless military contractor suspected of kidnapping 007, in a potential money laundering scheme. Double O head Moneypenny recruits cat burglar Rachel Wolff to infiltrate the facility where the last suspicious haul originated and relay any notable discoveries. Meanwhile, Johanna Harwood—Agent 003—embarks on a determined mission to rescue Bond, despite being deemed psychologically unfit for duty after her fiancé's death. As she searches, she comes to fear a mole within MI6 may be hindering her progress. Sherwood delivers all the hallmarks of a Bond novel, including a complex plot replete with double-crossing and exotic settings, plenty of Easter eggs for Ian Fleming fans, crackling prose ("He begins to edge up the mountainside, keeping to the bushes, his steps light as wishes"), and a jaw-dropping conclusion. Readers will be on tenterhooks until the final installment.
