Charles Cumming

1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on the Lockerbie bombing. What he uncovers is terrifying…2020: Kite has been taken captive and brutally tortured. He now has a choice: reveal the truth about what happened in France thirty years earlier – or watch his family die.

Thomas Kell, former MI6 officer, devoted his life to the service, but was left with nothing except grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin. Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge and embarks on a mission to recruit a top Russian spy, who is in possession of a terrifying secret... As the mission reaches boiling point, the threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack looms over Britain. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6 – or to his own conscience?

Six weeks before she is due to become the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene disappears without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in with orders to find her – quickly and quietly. Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different – and the consequences worse than anyone imagines…

Smart, young, ambitious and open to deceit, Alec Milius finds his perfect job when he is recruited by MI6. Working alone, he weaves a tangled web of deception, but he soon finds it difficult to distinguish lies from truth, and this can mean the difference between life and death. X rated, contains offensive language.

Hong Kong 1997 - with only a few months of British rule remaining before the territory returns to Chinese rule, the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man emerges from the seas off the New Territories, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the Governor himself, a young MI6 agent, Joe Lennox, sees an opportunity to make his reputation.

Arriving in Istanbul to investigate a mysterious plane crash, Thomas Kell discovers that MI6 operations in the region have been fatally compromised. Kell’s search for the mole takes him from London, to Greece, and into Eastern Europe. He will do anything to see this operation through – including putting himself, and others, in the line of fire…