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Thriller / suspense, Espionage & spy thriller, Political assassinations
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Abacus
- Paperback Jan 14, 2020 | 9780349142968 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 2, 2019 | 9781408709924 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown
- Paperback Jan 14, 2020 | 9780349142968 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 2, 2019 | 9781408709924 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 2, 2019 | 9781408709900 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 2, 2019 | 9781405543095 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown
- Paperback Jan 14, 2020 | 9780349142968 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 2, 2019 | 9781408709924 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 2, 2019 | 9781408709900 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 2, 2019 | 9781405543095 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jan 14, 2020 | 9780349142968 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback May 2, 2019 | 9781408709924 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book May 2, 2019 | 9781408709900 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 2, 2019 | 9781405543095 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
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'A gripping, fast-moving and intelligent novel from new spy fiction star Oliver Harris' Irish Independent
'Oliver Harris is always pure quality and I'm loving the hell out of his foray into the contemporary spy novel' Ian Rankin
'Scary if true, or even half true' Sunday Times star pick
There is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane - mercurial, inquisitive, free floating. He's spent fifteen years managing events overseas that never make the papers, deniable and deeply effective. Kane is a ghost in his own life, picking up and dropping personalities as each new cover story comes into play. But when a woman he loves, Joanna Lake, vanishes without a trace in Kazakhstan, he is forced centre stage.
Drawn ever deeper into a realm of deception, Kane moves from merely infiltrating events to steering them. He's used to a new mode of hybrid psychological warfare - but snowbound Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. Poised between China, Russia and the West, dictatorship and democracy, state intelligence and an increasingly powerful world of private agencies, it's impossible to work out who is manipulating who. And Kane's not the only one trying to figure out where Joanna Lake has gone or what she learned before disappearing.
Unable to trust anyone, hunted by his own colleagues, and with the life of someone he loves at stake, Kane needs to work out who is driving events, and why...
Readers say:
'Damn, Harris knows what he is talking about, and damn if he doesn't stream that knowledge hard and fast through a sniper's ricocheting trickshot of a plot' five star reader review
'I love the geopolitical skullduggery, the contemporary Great Game ... and it does feel contemporary. It puts espionage solidly in the digital world without losing the essence - people on the ground' five star reader review
'Up there with LeCarre in my view. I'll get everything he's written now' five star reader review
Praise for A Shadow Intelligence: an utterly unputdownable spy thriller
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Elliott Kane is an unusually thoughtful spy... As much a thinker as a doer, Kane has much in common with le Carre's Jerry Westerby or Lionel Davidson's Johnny Porter, a plausibly multi-faceted old school operator with the skills - physical, psychological, intellectual - to negotiate the geopolitical faultlines of central Asia as Russia and China square up over Kazahstan's untapped oil reserve - Irish Times
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Sharp writing and provocative content - Wall Street Journal
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Elliot Kane is highly-trained MI6 spook. So highly-trained that he's pretty much forgotten who the hell he really is after years of false identities and subterfuge...In a deadly world of deception by just about every nasty state, and that includes his own, he's truly up against it in this complex thriller that keeps you on your toes throughout - Sunday Sport, four stars
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