BOX 88 BOX 88

Publisher Description

An organisation that doesn’t exist.

A spy that can’t be caught.

Years ago, a spy was born…

1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on the Lockerbie bombing. What he uncovers is terrifying…

Now he faces the deadliest decision of his life…

2020: Kite has been taken captive and brutally tortured. He now has a choice: reveal the truth about what happened in France thirty years earlier – or watch his family die.

In a battle unlike anything he has faced before, Kite must use all his skills to stay alive.

What people are saying about BOX 88

‘A spy for the 21st century’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year

‘Wonderfully taut, exciting and up-to-date’ Spectator, Books of the Year

‘An ambitious fusion of coming-of-age novel and gripping espionage thriller’ Financial Times, Books of the Year

‘BOX 88 is so good. Charles Cumming is up there with the very best espionage writers’ Ian Rankin

‘A wonderful spy novel; Charles Cumming’s most ambitious – and his best – yet’ Mick Herron

‘Charles Cumming has breathed new life into the spy novel’ Ben Macintyre

‘Atmospheric and full of sharply realised characters’ Sunday Times

‘A clever thriller’ Sun

‘Intelligence, grace, and stunning verisimilitude’ Gregg Hurwitz

‘An engaging hero’ James Swallow

‘All the hallmarks of the finest spy thriller’ Charlotte Philby

‘Sharp-eyed and satisfying’ Henry Porter

‘A great new spy hero is born’ Amanda Craig

‘Ideal for anyone nostalgic for their first love and the whiff of Marlboro Lights’ The Times

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.

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2020
1 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
496
Pages
PUBLISHER
HarperCollins
SIZE
2
MB

Customer Reviews

Brummieboy59 ,

A galloping good read

A real page turner with highly believable plots and characters

DaveandJulie ,

Well written

An interesting well written work that’s based around real events that happened thirty plus years ago. The only criticism I have is the level of detail in the middle of the book that could have been shortened to make it a more exciting read.

thejgc ,

Very long winded

I was somewhat disappointed a good storyline but at times the flashback to when Kite was younger was like reading a boys own novel and became very tedious. That said I will give the next book in the series a go.

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