Tom Bradby

As senior MI6 officer Kate Henderson arrives for a weekend away in Venice, a Russian spy enters the city with plans to kidnap her… But it's not all it seems. The defector 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. With proof of the PM involved in a sordid scandal and a financial paper trail that undeniably links him to the Russians, the evidence seems bulletproof.

But is anything in the dark world of espionage ever that simple? The motives of the defector are anything but clear 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.

Cairo, 1942, when a British officer is found murdered, it is assumed to be a political assassination by local extremists opposed to British rule. Joe Quinn, a former New York cop, isn't convinced, and his investigation centres on a high placed spy who is feeding secrets to Rommel.

St Petersburg 1917, a city on the brink of revolution, and Sandro Ruzsky of the city police is investigating the murders of a young couple found out on the ice on the river Neva. What is the involvement of Maria, the ballerina Ruzsky once loved, and is she the next victim?

Nothing good ever comes from a midnight phone call. For washed-up spy Harry Tower, it is the worst news at the worst possible time. His son, Sean, has gone missing in troubled Iran after writing an expose about government corruption.

Their relationship has never recovered since Harry's wife's suicide, for which Sean holds his father responsible. And Harry, with his career on the verge of disintegration, needs to find him and put things right.
When Harry arrives in Tehran, he finds a city on the cusp of revolution. Foreign powers are jockeying for influence, money and, most importantly, oil. The CIA are conspiring to undermine the government with an impending coup, and there are dark mutterings about opium smuggling. But the reasons for Sean's disappearance may be even more sinister than Harry first suspected.

Before long, he is on the run - not only from a faceless enemy, but from his own past. Which will catch up with him first?