Secret Service - Hardcover

Bradby, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802148034 ISBN 13: 9780802148032

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019

Synopsis

From British journalist and bestselling author, Tom Bradby, Secret Service is a fresh-from-the-headlines thriller that follows senior MI6 agent Kate Henderson as she races to unmask a Russian mole in the UK government.

To those who don’t really know her, Kate Henderson’s life must seem perfectly ordinary. But she is in fact a senior MI6 officer, who right now is nursing the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb. While heading up the Russia Desk of the Secret Intelligent Service, one of Kate’s undercover operations has revealed some alarming evidence. Evidence that a senior UK politician is a high level Russian informer.

Determined to find out who it is, Kate must risk everything to get to the truth. Until a young woman is brutally murdered as a consequence, which puts Kate and her team under the spotlight.

With blood on her hands, her reputation to uphold, her family hanging by a thread and a leadership election looming, Kate is quickly running out of options and out of time.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Bradby is a British novelist, screenwriter and journalist. As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of the UK network ITV’s News at Ten. He has written six previous novels. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos were shortlisted for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He lives in London.

Review

Praise for Secret Service:

“A gripping thriller.”―Sunday Times (UK)

“There are resonant echoes of le Carré here―in the way the betrayals reach from marriage beds to the seats of governments―but there is also a distinctly contemporary feeling in the idea that truth, even when it's discoverable, may no longer matter.”―Booklist (starred review)

“Cracking, uber-topical spy thriller... Bradby deftly works in current fears of Moscow infiltrating our institutions amid a plot full of twists and turns.”―Financial Times

“The author reveals a rarely seen facet of secret agents: the domestic side. Not a clichéd Jane Bond, Kate is a mother to two teenagers, daughter to a spiteful mother sliding into dementia, and wife to a civil servant who may be working for a traitor. Ops go sideways, betrayals abound, and good people die. Bradby keeps the reader guessing to the last. Fans of cerebral spycraft in the vein of le Carré will enjoy this outing.”―Publishers Weekly

“Enthralling and fast-moving...packed with details of modern tradecraft in the twilight world of spooks, against a background of politics at its most Machiavellian, it is the stuff headlines are made of.”―Daily Mail (UK)

“Teems with twists and the denouement is imaginative and unexpected.”―Times (UK)

“A strong dose of international politics with an all-too-plausible premise.”―Observer (UK)

“An excellent thriller straight out of today's headlines...a fast, riveting yarn.”―Sun (UK)

Praise for Tom Bradby

“A cunning story of love, death and betrayal.” ―Chicago Tribune, on The White Russian

“Atmospheric and richly entertaining. . . . Political intrigue of the highest order.” ―Washington Post, on The White Russian

“A stretch limo of a book, needing every inch of interior space to incorporate its grand themes of political intrigue, social unrest and romantic betrayal.” ―News & Observer, on The White Russian

“Imperial Russia and the story of the doomed royal family continue to fascinate.... The tale of the Romanovs has always been stranger than fiction. Still, the small details that Bradby includes...lend a tantalizing authenticity to his fictional sidebar to one of the great stories of the twentieth century.” ―Orlando Sentinel, on The White Russian

“Brilliant. . . . St. Petersburg . . . illuminates The White Russian. . . . Rusky is a character to remember. . . . A complex mystery.”―Columbus Dispatch, on The White Russian

"Bradby's best book yet... Enjoyable and atmospheric" ―Sunday Telegraph (UK), on The God of Chaos

"Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller" ―Daily Mail (UK), on The God of Chaos

"A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama" ―Irish Independent, on The Sleep of the Dead

"This feisty, pacey thriller by Tom Bradby has it all - nervy gangsters, crooked politicians, gutsy cops and a sexy moll. It is also blessed with excellent timing....A top-notch piece of crime writing" ―Press Association (UK), on Blood Money

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0802148034
• ISBN 13: 9780802148032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368