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Double Agent: From the bestselling author of Secret Service

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Unexpectedly, she receives an approach from Borodin, a senior agent in Russia’s SVR, successor to the KGB, offering to defect to the West. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. There again begins an operation to determine the veracity of this and we get more office and political manoeuvring, Kate putting herself in danger again and so on. Kate’s deterioration adds a good deal of tension to the story and the ending has a nice touch of cynicism to it.

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 candidates are few, Kate’s boss ‘C’, his deputy Ian, and Kate’s subordinates Julie, Danny and Suzy, a new recruit.In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. If Spy Thrillers have to be dark mazes of corruption and confusion then Tom Bradby has delivered a classic.

Such is the world of secret operations within a political regime while a totalitarian state will always have an advantage. When she arranges a trip to Venice so her kids can briefly visit with their father, she is secretly contacted by Mikhail Borodin, who claims to be seeking to defect. The stress is getting to Kate and her family but the time is coming where she may have to choose between country and sanity. Every time I read about Russia I keep thinking Killing Eve and I am waiting for someone to be assassinated in a ridiculously theatrical style, while dressed as a clown.His ability to weave a complex yet very intriguing conspiracy is to be admired, also his ability to pull you into the story. With proof of the PM involved in a sordid scandal and a financial paper trail that undeniably links him to the Russians, the evidence seems bulletproof. We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). Then there are those who rely on cardboard stereotypes of spies and opposing ideologies, with their often reductive tropes of good vs evil. There's a nice set piece in Berlin when a planned defection fails, or perhaps was never meant to succeed, but this installment of Kate's quest is largely lacking in kinetic energy, though there's much discussion and political maneuvering.

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