Double Agent: From the bestselling author of Secret Service

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Yet the motives of the defector are unclear and key people in the British Establishment are refusing to acknowledge the reality that could be revealed by the defector’s evidence and so drag their feet. The stress is getting to Kate and her family but the time is coming where she may have to choose between country and sanity.

A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. While Kate is visiting Venice with her children, she is kidnapped by a senior Russian agent, who wants to defect. This very limited pool of suspects seems somehow at odds with the significance of the matters in play.

We are arguably now entering a new Cold War, with tensions between East and West at its ever increasing height. Everyone behaves as stupidly as possible, and in the end nothing much has changed from the beginning of the book, other than the fact that the protagonist has an addiction to sleeping pills now. This would have been an absurd storyline in the context of the immediate zeitgeist of post-Soviet Russia.

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.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

But for Senior MI6 officer Kate Henderson, nothing is ever that simple… Kidnapped in Venice by a Russian defector, Kate knows she’s in trouble. The second in the series with Kate Henderson as a senior MI6 intelligence officer in Secret Service. S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.And, more worryingly, it seems that there are key people at the heart of the British Establishment who refuse to acknowledge the reality in front of them. At the insistence of the foreign minister that Borodin’s story be better substantiated before she makes a decision, Kate makes a dangerous trip to Russia under cover. It was captivating and I would probably have read it in one go if I'd had an actual cooy of the book (another book read on Pigeonhole, so it was a stave a day!