JUDAS 62: The gripping new spy action thriller featuring BOX 88 from the master of the 21st century spy novel (BOX 88, Book 2)

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I really enjoyed this book and it flowed on so well with the characters from the first book, BOX 88. The story is an absorbing mix of action and theory with an exciting cast of characters that makes this an addictive read.

There was more sophistication in this plot line, some double bluffs, but despite the blips, I remained confident. And that could be four or five books down the line at the rate the overall story arc is progressing.The Judas List comprises of Russian enemies and traitors who are targeted by the FSB for revenge kills usually using nerve agents such as Novichok. For Kite to think back to the man he had been in the summer of 1993 was to remember a different person: richer in feelings, hungry for experience and obsessed by the possibilities and complications of sex. I found that the story of Kite’s visit to and escape from Russia had echoes of Ben Macintyre’s true life book The Spy and the Traitor and in this respect, though the methods were somewhat different, it rang true and therefore had all the more impact.

The novel flashes back 1993 when Kite used the Peter Galvin identity in an operation in Russia, to bring out Yuri Aranov a leading biological warfare scientist.But it’s not as straight forward as that: the name that appears on the list is actually an alias he used nearly thirty years ago when he was a rookie recruit sent into Russia to exfiltrate a chemical weapons scientist.