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    Double Agent
    Double Agent
    Double Agent
    Audiobook10 hours

    Double Agent

    Written by Tom Bradby

    Narrated by Juliet Aubrey

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    From British journalist and bestselling author Tom Bradby, a sequel to Secret Service that pushes senior MI6 agent Kate Henderson to her limits as she tries to unmask the Russian spy holding the nation’s highest office

    Kidnapped in Venice by a Russian defector, Kate knows she's in trouble. But when he offers her conclusive evidence that the British Prime Minister is a live agent working for Moscow, Kate’s holiday quickly becomes the start of her next mission.

    The defector has proof of the PM involved in a sordid scandal?a video supposedly used to blackmail him into Russian service decades prior?and a financial paper trail that undeniably links him to the Russians, but his motives are anything but clear. Riddled with doubt that the evidence she is presented with may not in fact be as bulletproof as it seems, Kate reopens the investigation into the PM. As she works through the case, Kate runs up against key people at the heart of the British Establishment who refuse to acknowledge the reality in front of them. And, more worryingly, clear signs that there’s still a mole in her department.

    But Kate had already identified and eradicated the mole, codenamed Viper. Could she have been mistaken? And could this horrifying video be a fake, produced by the Russians to sabotage British democracy?

    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. This mission will push Kate dangerously close to the edge as she continues her relentless fight for the truth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 3, 2020
    ISBN9781980055679

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    • 5/5
      Fast paced action, full of cross and double-cross, red herrings as Kate Henderson, senior MI6 officer tries to work out if a potential Russian defector is offering genuine gold intelligence or if it is all an elaborate bluff. She also has to deal with her husband's infidelity and defection to Moscow, which has badly affected their teenage children. Throw in political intrigue and the historical rivalries between MI6 and MI5 and the author used all his journalism experience to good effect.
    • 4/5
      Better than book one. Kate is a compelling character, and the plot is excellent.
    • 3/5
      I was very impressed by Tom Bradby’s earlier novel, Secret Service, which also featured Kate Henderson. She is a very empathetic character as she struggles to juggle the conflicting demands of her job as a capable and ambitious senior officer in MI6 with bringing up two teenaged children. Her husband has an equally high-pressure role, as principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education.I was, therefore, looking forward to reading this sequel. Unfortunately I was disappointed. Somehow the novel never quite gelled in my mind. Kate remains a powerful, if challenged, character, with the fallout of the previous novel having added significantly to her travails. Sadly, however, the strength of her as a character was not sufficient to counterbalance what I found to be too implausible a plotline. While the previous novel had felt fresh and intriguing, I found that this one failed to build on that start, with no cliché about the Whitehall corridors of power knowingly overlooked.
    • 5/5
      This is a brilliant spy novel with an outstanding protagonist.Britain's MI6 honcho Kate Henderson takes her teenage children to Venice to visit their self-confessed Russian spy father Simon. He now lives in exile in Moscow. While there she is lured away to meet with a Russian spymaster who presents an almost too good to be true offer. He is on the losing side of a power struggle in the Russian intelligence apparatus, facing imminent arrest or worse. His offer to Kate: he (and his family) will defect to Britain with conclusive evidence that the current British prime minister is a Russian mole. They want safe sanctuary in return. This is an excellent sequel to the author's "Secret Service" which introduces Kate and spins the backstory to this one. It's a slick and brisk spy yarn story: full of red herrings and blind alleys. There's an undercurrent of infighting at the top of the British government and within MI6. Kate's ambitious boss is desperate for the top job at MI6 as the current head faces his wife's terminal illness. All of this has Kate travelling incognito into Russia in order to confirm the Russian's story. Kate dominates the story as she deals with the Russian defection. At the same time, she faces family problems of her own: her dementia-challenged mother and her teenaged children cut adrift by the loss of their father. Her own sanity is under stress attack by too little sleep due to insomnia. The suspense is intense as the story peters out to an oddly abrupt ending following an explosive denouement. It leaves this reader wondering whether there will be a follow-up. I hope so.I received a complementary advanced reading copy of the eBook for review from the publisher Atlantic Monthly Press via Netgalley. The comments about it are my own.
    • 4/5
      Excellent, though conclusion somehow felt a little rushed
    • 4/5
      I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.I am at a bit of a loss as to how to rate this book really. The first 80% of it was excellent: Kate was trying to work out if a defector could really prove the British PM was in the pay of the Russians, and whether there was a mole in her department. It was exciting and interesting, and I kept on top of all the twists and turns. Then there were scenes set in Georgia which were slow and read like a geography lesson, and then all hell broke loose. There was a crazy 'chase' scene, far too many things happened in the space of too few pages, and I don't have the faintest idea was supposed to have been revealed - was the PM a Russian agent? Was there a mole? I couldn't tell you...