Kennedy 35 (Box 88)
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Veteran agent Lachlan Kite—"a spy for the 21st century" (Daily Mail)—reckons with the fallout from a mission in Senegal carried out early in his career.
1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, twenty-four-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 the resources at his disposal to protect Martha from a criminal network with links to international terror.
Charles Cumming once again straddles two timelines to create a high-tension thriller in this latest Lachlan Kite novel.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This nail-biting British espionage thriller features an elite secret agent hunting a war criminal across two timelines. Lachlan Kite is on a sabbatical from BOX 88, the covert agency he runs, when he receives a warning from an old friend. Three decades before, twentysomething new agent Kite is in Senegal, working to bring in one of the architects of the Rwandan genocide, when that op goes horribly wrong. Charles Cumming has crafted a lightning-fast cat-and-mouse game that will keep listeners utterly enthralled. In both timelines, Kite has to make life-and-death choices that clearly take an emotional toll on the agent. Narrator Elliot Fitzpatrick perfectly captures the book’s taut pacing, leaving us feeling like we’re racing along the streets of Dakar right alongside Kite. This exciting thriller is the perfect fix for espionage junkies.
