*Icarus 17, the fourth book in the gripping Lachlan Kite thriller series is available to pre-order now!*

Waterstones Best Espionage Thriller of the Year

Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

Financial Times Thriller of the Year

The location: West Africa

The player: 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite

The target: A war criminal on the run

The objective: Kill or capture

Kite’s mission should be straightforward, but it soon turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse along the beaches and backstreets of Senegal.

Now, nearly thirty years later, it seems the game isn’t over.

And unless Kite can turn the tables on his pursuers, the inner workings of the secret state could be exposed?

Praise for KENNEDY 35

‘A bold choice of setting, which adds skilful dabs of colour to a tightly wrought tale’ The Times

‘A compelling exploration of the consequences of realpolitik and the intermingling of the personal with the political’ Guardian

‘Cumming marshals his twin time frames expertly and illuminates an awful chapter in recent history. A first-rate spy thriller’ Mail on Sunday

‘Atmospheric and packed with threat, it thrills on every single page’ Daily Mail

‘An enthralling, haunting work?taking the spy thriller to a new level of storytelling’ Financial Times

‘A compelling depiction of the various layers of infamy involved in an appalling blot on the history of humanity’ Literary Review

What Readers are saying about KENNEDY 35

‘I couldn’t put this down? a cracking read!‘ ?????

‘Fast-paced and tightly plotted. If you love Ian Fleming you will adore this series’ ?????

‘Charles Cumming has a fantastic way of bringing espionage thrillers to life‘ ?????

‘Gripping, intricate, smart and suspenseful story’ ?????

‘Plenty of action and a terrific plot, well told’ ?????

*SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH*

*FINANCIAL TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR*

*WATERSTONES BEST ESPIONAGE THRILLERS OF 2023*

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.

Praise for KENNEDY 35

‘A bold choice of setting, which adds skilful dabs of colour to a tightly wrought tale’ The Times

‘A compelling exploration of the consequences of realpolitik and the intermingling of the personal with the political’ Guardian

‘Cumming marshals his twin time frames expertly and illuminates an awful chapter in recent history. A first-rate spy thriller’ Mail on Sunday

‘Atmospheric and packed with threat, it thrills on every single page’ Daily Mail

‘An enthralling, haunting work?taking the spy thriller to a new level of storytelling’ Financial Times

‘A compelling depiction of the various layers of infamy involved in an appalling blot on the history of humanity’ Literary Review

What Readers are saying about KENNEDY 35

‘I couldn’t put this down? a cracking read!‘ ?????

‘Fast-paced and tightly plotted. If you love Ian Fleming you will adore this series’ ?????

‘Charles Cumming has a fantastic way of bringing espionage thrillers to life‘ ?????

‘Gripping, intricate, smart and suspenseful story’ ?????

‘Plenty of action and a terrific plot, well told’ ?????

The second book in Charles Cumming’s gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 – a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar.

A spy in one of the most dangerous places on Earth?
1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret intelligence agency BOX 88. To the outside world, he is there as a language teacher. In reality, he is there as a spy. But Kite’s mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded with a former KGB officer on his trail.

An old enemy looking for revenge?
2020: Kite discovers he has been placed on the ‘JUDAS’ list -enemies of Russia who have been targeted for assassination. His only hope of survival is to confront the Russian secret state head on?

Who will come out on top in this deadly game of cat and mouse?

‘Judas 62 has all you could want from a tense, topical and intelligent spy thriller’ The Times Books of the Year

The perfect Christmas gift for spy thriller fans!

A spy in one of the most dangerous places on Earth?
1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia in the guise of a language teacher. In reality, he is there as a spy. Top secret intelligence agency BOX 88 has ordered Kite to extract a chemical weapons scientist before his groundbreaking research falls into the wrong hands. But Kite’s mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded in a hostile city with a former KGB officer on his trail.
 
An old enemy looking for revenge?
2020: Now the director of BOX 88 operations in the UK, Kite discovers he has been placed on the ‘JUDAS’ list – a record of enemies of Russia who have been targeted for assassination. Kite’s fight for survival takes him to Dubai, where he must confront the Russian secret state head on?
 
Who will come out on top in this deadly game of cat and mouse?

‘Judas 62 has all you could want from a tense, topical and intelligent spy thriller’ The Times Books of the Year

A spy that can’t be caught.

Years ago, a spy was born?

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?

Now he faces the deadliest decision of his life?

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.

In a battle unlike anything he has faced before, Kite must use all his skills to stay alive.

‘A spy for the 21st century’Daily Mail, Books of the Year

‘Wonderfully taut, exciting and up-to-date’Spectator, Books of the Year

‘An ambitious fusion of coming-of-age novel and gripping espionage thriller’Financial Times, Books of the Year

‘BOX 88 is so good.  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

‘Charles Cumming has breathed new life into the spy novel’ Ben Macintyre

‘Atmospheric and full of sharply realised characters’Sunday Times

‘A clever thriller’Sun

‘Intelligence, grace, and stunning verisimilitude’ Gregg Hurwitz

‘An engaging hero’ James Swallow

‘All the hallmarks of the finest spy thriller’ Charlotte Philby

‘Sharp-eyed and satisfying’ Henry Porter

‘A great new spy hero is born’ Amanda Craig

‘Ideal for anyone nostalgic for their first love and the whiff of Marlboro Lights’The Times

A gripping new standalone spy thriller, recalling the classic film Casablanca, from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday).

A SIMPLE TASK
Successful novelist Kit Carradine has grown restless. So when British Intelligence invites him to enter the secret world of espionage, he willingly takes a leap into the unknown.

A GLOBAL THREAT
Kit finds himself in Morocco on the trail of Lara Bartok – a leading figure in Resurrection, a revolutionary movement whose brutal attacks on right-wing politicians have spread violence throughout the West.

A DANGEROUS TARGET
Drawn to Lara, but caught between competing intelligence services who want her dead, Kit faces an awful choice: abandon her to her fate or risk everything trying to save her.

‘An instant classic of the genre’ Mick Herron

‘The Man Between is up there with the best – full of thrills, wit and fine writing’ Peter Robinson

A NEW COLD WAR IS LOOMING
Former MI6 officer Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. Until the Russian agent he blames for the death of his girlfriend is spotted at a Red Sea resort – in dangerous company.

ONE SPY WANTS REVENGE
Taking the law into his own hands, Kell embarks on a mission to recruit his rival. Only to find himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in which it becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom.

THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL
As the mission reaches boiling point, rumours of a terrorist attack suggest a massacre on Britain soil is imminent. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6 – or to his own conscience?

Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Charles Cumming is ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday)

Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6’s top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrives? for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident.

In Istanbul, Kell soon discovers that there is a traitor inside Western Intelligence. Then he meets Rachel- the dead spy’s daughter- and the stakes grow higher still.

From London to Greece and into Eastern Europe, Kell tracks the mole. But a betrayal close to home transforms the operation into something more personal. Soon Kell will stop at nothing to see it through.

Hong Kong, 1997. Only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese control.

It’s a feverish city. And the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man emerges from the sea, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the British Governor, a young MI6 officer, Joe Lennox, sees the chance to make his reputation.

But when the old man, a high-profile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by the CIA, it’s clear that there’s a great deal more at stake here than a young spy’s career.

The professor holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that could have catastrophic repercussions for the world in the twenty-first century?