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This is another great read from accomplished author Tom Bradby. Well written and well researched, the storyline was complex but gripping, with excellent use of smoke and mirrors, and I have to say, the concluding chapter left me breathless, with its non stop action - as for the mole - I guessed correctly, despite the red herrings, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. My thanks to Random House U.K./Transworld Publishers and Penguin Random House U.K. Audio for an eARC and unabridged audiobook edition via NetGalley of ‘Triple Cross’ by Tom Bradby in exchange for an honest review. The audiobook is narrated by Juliet Aubrey and has a running time of 10 hours, 19 minutes at 1x speed. As I wrote previously these books are closer to George Smiley’s world to that of James Bond. There is still plenty of action along with the kind of twists and revelations that are integral to well written espionage fiction. The key to the investigation appears to be Natasha Medvedev, Lena’s neighbor. Will Field be able to trust somebody for whom self-preservation is her only goal? Is wise to fall in love when there is every indication that Natasha herself could very well be the next victim? In a city where reality is a rather dangerous luxury, Field is lead into the darkness beyond all the dazzle of society and into a world where the basest of all human needs are met and where the truth appears to be a lethal commodity.
A Russian agent has come forward with news that the Prime Minister has been set up, that there is a special KGB unit with a single purpose. This unit exists to process intelligence provided by ‘Agent Dante’. And the information that Agent Dante provides clearly has come from senior levels within MI6. If it isn’t the Prime Minister, who is it? So Kate once again enters the murky world of Intelligence and the games within games. Finding the mole becomes a priority and a quest that could cost her everything, including the family she lives…
He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor – a job he held for a decade – before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015. 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), on Secret Service In Bradby’s engrossing sequel to 2019’s Secret Service, MI6 agent Kate Henderson rides point on a career-jeopardizing investigation of Prime Minister James Ryan. The tantalizingly ambiguous ending will leave the reader wondering what’s in store for Kate. Bradby does a fine job balancing the professional with the personal.”— Publishers Weekly, on Double Agent Kate has left her role at MI6 under somewhat of a cloud and is trying to rebuild her life in France where she is living with her two children, with whom she needs to reconnect. Everything she had in life has been turned upside down including losing her husband from whom she is now separated. Therefore, the last thing she wants is for the British Prime Minister to turn up unannounced on her doorstep. His reputation is at stake, largely due to Kate’s investigations in the previous novel in the series and he has come with an unbelievable story which he asks her to investigate. If true, it will clear his name and hopefully uncover a mole (Dante) who allegedly holds a senior position in the echelons of MI6. Against her better judgement and with a lot of bribery and arm-twisting, Kate accepts the challenges and leaves her children to work with her old team on an independent investigation sanctioned by the PM himself.
An excellent thriller straight out of today’s headlines… a fast, riveting yarn.”– Sun, on Secret Service
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I have enjoyed this trilogy very much. It is tightly plotted with Kate Henderson continuing to be a strong lead. All three novels have been five-star reads for me.
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