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Double Agent: From the bestselling author of Secret Service

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Kate is clearly under a great deal of strain and the office politics in the intelligence service are just mind boggling.

This is not a shoot them up, jump of buildings type thriller, it has strong characterisations and a glimpse of politics within both Government and the intelligence agency. Kate's work life balance is pretty screwed in this second installment of the working mother M15 agent thriller series. These questions plague Kate as she tries to keep it together for her children and ailing mother, steadily losing sleep and, she fears, her sanity.The end result is a first class piece of spy fiction that kept very happily engaged from beginning to end. Such is the world of secret operations within a political regime while a totalitarian state will always have an advantage. She has to deal with the possible defection of a prominent Russian and his family, along with her own family issues. From that point onward, Kate oscillates between mental and familial crises at home and her need to convince her government to accept Borodin's deal at work.

Bradby continues to do provide spy craft and frame details while providing CH growth, maintaining a varying Pace, and ramping up the Tone. This very limited pool of suspects seems somehow at odds with the significance of the matters in play. The novel starts off with a murder, and with seven people trapped on an isolated Greek island lashed by a "wild, unpredictable Greek wind.I really hope this series of books get made into a film or tv series as would be fantastic and hope there will be a third instalment n the not too distant future! The allegations are explosive: agreement to the resettlement suggests that they could be true, while a refusal could come later to look like cowardice or worse. Side by side with the tense spy thrills is the story of the unravelling of M16 agent Kate as she tries to cope with the personal implications of events. The author may have insights but not to bring clarity just enjoyments - if he had the truth an unknown hand would have to silence him, then who’d read the News. Michaelides takes a literary turn in his latest novel, employing an unreliable narrator, the structure of classical drama, and a self-conscious eye to dismantling the locked-room mystery.

He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards. While Kate is visiting Venice with her children, she is kidnapped by a senior Russian agent, who wants to defect.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Its the type of book that is full of action and it takes you on a breathtaking ride from England to Venice and Russia. With one parent in Moscow, Fiona and Gus are understandably confused, but it is not always easy to sympathise with bratty teenage behaviour.

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