Double Agent: From the bestselling author of Secret Service

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Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK, Transworld Publishers for the opportunity to read another fantastic ARC in exchange for an honest opinion. K. - Transworld Publishers for their invitation to receive an eARC via NetGalley of ‘Double Agent’ by Tom Bradby in exchange for an honest review. A credible, twisty spy thriller, it was powered along by a clever plot and a strong cast of characters.

S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. There were some unanswered questions left in this book, so I'm pleased that there will be a third book, which will be published next year! Double Agent’ did seem to end quite abruptly and I was very pleased to learn that Bradby is currently working on the third book, ‘Triple Cross’, provisionally due out next year.Stuart was unveiled in the first book as an adulterer with her best friend but more embarrassing to a secret service high flyer also a Russian Spy. Complicating Kate’s assessment of the situation is the suspicion that her husband Stuart, codename ‘Viper’, was not the only Russian agent in MI6. 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.

This is not a shoot them up, jump of buildings type thriller, it has strong characterisations and a glimpse of politics within both Government and the intelligence agency.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. There again begins an operation to determine the veracity of this and we get more office and political manoeuvring, Kate putting herself in danger again and so on. He never meanders, never wastes time, which allows the story and characters to flow naturally with good pace. Kate is clearly under a great deal of strain and the office politics in the intelligence service are just mind boggling. These questions plague Kate as she tries to keep it together for her children and ailing mother, steadily losing sleep and, she fears, her sanity.