This was a rub my hands with glee moment as Q from 007 fame lines up front and centre in his own series. After being forced to leave his role within the British Secret Service, Major Boothroyd rather unexpectedly finds himself investigating a death. Author Vaseem Khan has paid due respect to the original novels while spinning the first in this new series in a completely new and rather wonderful direction. Having read Khan’s first two award-winning crime series set in India, and with his own background in the UCL’s Department of Security and Crime Science, it feels as though this author was the perfect person to team up with Q.
While pacy, witty, and punchy, this sits on the more cosy side of crime fiction and the investigation ruled with gusto. Q was just as I would have imagined him to be, more at home in a library and laboratory than out in the field, yet he holds an important ace or two up his sleeve. Khan’s humour transfers brilliantly to the world of MI6 spy craft, either in your face like a sledgehammer or slicing and sly as it creeps up on you from behind. This novel slides into the LoveReading Star Book collection and also sits as a Liz Pick for its publication month.
The series promises much more, and I can’t wait to become a devoted follower. Quantum of Menace is a fabulous addition to the James Bond franchise, it’s smart, intriguing, and gloriously and fiendishly entertaining.
Filled with wit and verve, Vaseem Khan brings his vibrant and dynamic style to this spin-off cosy crime series set in the world of James Bond. Charming, drily humorous, and intelligently crafted, Quantum of Menace, the first in the Q mystery books, will appeal to Bond fans, readers of Murder Before Evensong,The Thursday Murder Club and Slow Horses novels, and those who are looking for a new take on clever crime fiction. **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**
Q is out of MI6 . . . . . . and in over his head
After Major Boothroyd (aka Q) is unexpectedly ousted from his role with British Intelligence developing technologies for MI6's 00 agents, he finds himself back in his sleepy hometown of Wickstone-on-Water. His childhood friend, renowned quantum computer scientist Peter Napier, has died in mysterious circumstances, leaving behind a cryptic note. The police seem uninterested, but Q feels compelled to investigate and soon discovers that Napier's ground-breaking work may have attracted sinister forces . . . Can Q decode the truth behind Napier's death, even as danger closes in?
'Excellent. An entertaining mash-up of Fleming, Le Carre and the best of British detective fiction' CHARLIE HIGSON
'Clever, cunning and quirky ... Quintessential Khan' MICK HERRON
'A wonderful novel, escapist and playful, but with moments of deep tenderness and serious comment' ANN CLEEVES
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About Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan first saw an elephant lumbering down the middle of the road in 1997 when he arrived in India to work as a management consultant. It was the most unusual thing he had ever encountered and served as the inspiration behind his series of crime novels. He returned to the UK in 2006 and now works at University College London for the Department of Security and Crime Science where he is astonished on a daily basis by the way modern science is being employed to tackle crime. Elephants are third on his list of passions, first and second being great literature and cricket, not always in that order.
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