Deep Blue
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3.9 • 23 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant new novel for fans of le Carre, Graham Greene and Charles Cumming.
During a time of political disruption and rising anti-nuclear sentiment, MI5 discovers that an extremist fringe group, Action Against Austerity, appears to have links to an established political party while planning sabotage using something or someone called Deep Blue. Banned from investigating British political parties, the head of MI5 seeks advice from Charles Thoroughgood, his opposite number in MI6.
Agreeing to help unofficially with the case, Charles must delve deep into his own past, to an unresolved Cold War case linked to his private life. Using the past as key to the present, he soon finds himself in a race against time to prevent a plot which is politically nuclear …
Authoritative and packed with in-depth knowledge, Deep Blue is a gripping new spy thriller from a master of the genre.
‘Judd infuses his writing with insider knowledge’ New Statesman
Customer Reviews
Brilliant. The beauty of these stories…
.. is you feel you know what will happen and whom it will involve. Well, mostly, you’ll only be partially correct & never quite how imagined!
A fantastic author who I’ve read about 60% of his complete catalogue. I’m hoping there may be some sort of ‘swan-song’ with Charles T.
Not a blue note anywhere
This is the perfect spy story for a country weekend. An agreeable mixture of John Le Carre and John Buchan, cleverly written and plotted it ticks all the boxes and the switching between past and present is deftly handled.
The hero is believable and the plot equally credible, the writer leaves you wanting to know more about the lives of most of the characters, that takes real skill.
I will read more by Alan Judd