Double Agent: From the bestselling author of Secret Service

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Kate and the rest of the small MI6 circle concerned are trying to recover after the events of last time. It follows on directly from Secret Service and I would strongly recommend that you read Secret Service first. Have a senior officer whose husband turned out to be a spy for Russia, go off to Venice to meet up with him; or might she have been placed into a dull desk job rather than at the centre of an investigation into whether the Prime Minister is a Russian spy.

Such are her management skills that she deals with the most disconcerting events with insouciance, which perhaps detracts from the excitement one might expect. Kate’s deterioration adds a good deal of tension to the story and the ending has a nice touch of cynicism to it.Those coming new to the series by ITV News at Ten anchor Tom Bradby, will find enough of the history to make it understandable without being burdened with too much backstory. She arranges a weekend in Venice, which also allows them to meet up with their father, who was previously outed as a Russian spy, and now lives a dull life in Moscow.

As ridiculous as this start is it gets more ludicrous, Kate is captured by a would be Russian dissident and then has to work out is she being played or has she made a brilliant coup. Very quick and easy to read novel with an engaging plot which keeps the reader engaged until the last minute! The only problem I had was with Kate’s icy and almost non-existent reaction to something that would be a spoiler but I feel should have had more emotional kick—perhaps her training, perhaps the author’s choice, but did not resonate as the Kate I am coming to understand. 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.Complicating Kate’s assessment of the situation is the suspicion that her husband Stuart, codename ‘Viper’, was not the only Russian agent in MI6.