KENNEDY 35 Synopsis
The third book in Charles Cumming’s gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 – a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar.
1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal.
The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices that will have devastating consequences not only for his career at top-secret intelligence agency BOX 88, but also for his relationship with Martha. 2023: Eric Appiah, an old friend from Kite’s days at school and an off-the-record BOX 88 asset, makes contact with explosive information about what happened all those years ago in West Africa.
When tragedy strikes, Kite must use all his resources to bring down a criminal network with links to international terror … and protect Martha from possible assassination.
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‘An enthralling, haunting work…taking the spy thriller to a new level of storytelling, one that illuminates the darkest corners of our modern world’ Financial Times
Praise for Charles Cumming
‘The storytelling is first-rate, with all the minutiae of spycraft, sense of place and memorable supporting characters you could wish for’ Sunday Times
‘Tense and topical, this has all you could want from an intelligent contemporary spy thriller’ The Times
‘Superbly constructed, it never hurries, but evokes the world of espionage in a way the late John le Carre would have much admired’ Daily Mail
‘Some of the best writing around on the intricacies of spycraft and the high price agents pay for doing their job’ Sun
‘Judas 62 has all you could want from a tense, topical and intelligent spy thriller’ The Times
‘Charles Cumming is up there with the very best espionage writers’ Ian Rankin
‘A wonderful spy novel; Charles Cumming’s most ambitious – and his best – yet’ Mick Herron
‘Atmospheric and full of sharply realised characters’ Sunday Times
‘Excellent’ Anthony Horowitz
‘With a lavish sprinkling of Bond and more than a teaspoonful of the Circus, this is a high-quality spy story’ Daily Mail
‘All the hallmarks of the finest spy thriller’ Charlotte Philby, acclaimed author of A Double Life
‘An enviably sharp-eyed and satisfying read. Great!’ Henry Porter, author of Firefly
‘Intelligent, relevant and engrossing’ NB Magazine
‘Cumming adroitly portrays Kite’s inner life…nail-biting’ Financial Times
‘ Cumming knows his stuff and has done his research, giving the novel an admirably authoritative air’ The Literary Review
‘Charles Cumming knows how to write a good spy novel’ The Herald
‘The gold standard in espionage fiction’ Kirkus
About Charles Cumming
Charles Cumming was our Guest Editor in March 2013 - click here - to see the books that inspired his writing.
Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He has been described as ‘the man who most successfully gets under the skin of Britain’s intelligence agencies’ (The Times). In the summer of 1995, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6, and A Spy by Nature was published in the UK in 2001.
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