Double Agent: From the bestselling author of Secret Service

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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. Kate and the rest of the small MI6 circle concerned are trying to recover after the events of last time. I read this with The Pigeonhole and it wasn't helped by having one stave every two days, plus reading two other books which came out every day. 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. MI6 senior intelligence officer Kate Henderson’s work life balance has hit the buffers since we last met up with her in Secret Service.

Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.Double Agent is a more pacier spy novel than its predecessor, and there are some well-written and suspenseful set-pieces on the way to the taut climax. Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK, Transworld Publishers for the opportunity to read another fantastic ARC in exchange for an honest opinion. 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. The deal on the table: arrange for the safe passage of the defector and his family in exchange for proof that the British Prime Minister is an agent for the Russians. The contemporary geopolitical detail is also convincing and the descriptions of the various locales from Venice to London to Moscow and Tbilisi are spot-on and quite evocative and add a further layer of credibility to the story.

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. Borodin explains that he and his father, Igor, former chief of Russia's foreign intelligence service, are victims of a GRU power grab and are at risk of death or imprisonment. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The question of whether there is still a high-level traitor remains, and Kate is now offered evidence by Mikhail.

Such is the world of secret operations within a political regime while a totalitarian state will always have an advantage. A credible, twisty spy thriller, it was powered along by a clever plot and a strong cast of characters. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. If you're considering reading "Double Agent", take into consideration that this is a second book, "Secret Service" being the first, and you'll have to read the first one as the plot of "Double Agent" continues directly from the first- otherwise, it'll be vert difficult to understand the plot or get into the swing of things. I read the first book Secret Service and enjoyed the relationship between our main protagonist Kate, her husband Stuart, his affair with Imogen who wants to be the next PM and Julie who is sleeping with the odious Ian who wants to be the head of MI6.