Triple Cross: The unputdownable, race-against-time thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Secret Service

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When the PM approaches her with a special assignment outside the powers and influence of the secret service she is conflicted but believes she can redeem the situation. The damaged PM needs his name to be finally exonerated and who better than by his biggest critic who was /(is) Kate. From 2005 until 2015, he was the political editor for ITV News, and presents the political discussion series The Agenda with Tom Bradby and the News at Ten. Shadow Dancer” was adapted by Bradby himself into a movie that starred Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough in the year 2012.

Kate has left her role at MI6 under somewhat of a cloud and is trying to rebuild her life in France where she is living with her two children, with whom she needs to reconnect. Everything she had in life has been turned upside down including losing her husband from whom she is now separated. Therefore, the last thing she wants is for the British Prime Minister to turn up unannounced on her doorstep. His reputation is at stake, largely due to Kate’s investigations in the previous novel in the series and he has come with an unbelievable story which he asks her to investigate. If true, it will clear his name and hopefully uncover a mole (Dante) who allegedly holds a senior position in the echelons of MI6. Against her better judgement and with a lot of bribery and arm-twisting, Kate accepts the challenges and leaves her children to work with her old team on an independent investigation sanctioned by the PM himself. In this third instalment the story remains much as before. Kate has been sidelined and pensioned off as her standing has been compromised by a failed assignment, the death of agents and losing the diplomatic kudos to the Russians. Her position has not been helped by an adulterous husband who has been giving secrets to the Russians. Her resolve to leave also came about for personal reasons after her children were abducted and threatened with death if she didn’t comply with their wishes and end her investigation. What a great read. Such a pleasure to read a strong female lead in this often male dominated genre. Not that she’s a female Jason Bourne in a figure hugging stab vest or a girlie Harry Palmer with a better choice of designer specs. The plotting is superb; convoluted so it’s impossible to second guess where the story is leading. Who’s at the heart of betrayal. It could be a husband, close friend, colleague, senior official or even the PM. The skill in the storytelling is that we’re kept guessing. The pace is fast, there’s a real sense of danger and excitement and I felt as if I’d been dropped into the middle of a world of espionage and double dealing.

Triple Cross

Attempting to rebuild her shattered life in the South of France, former MI6 operative Kate Henderson receives an unexpected and most unwelcome visit from an old adversary: the UK Prime Minister. He has an extraordinary story to tell - and he needs her help. I would thoroughly recommend all 3 books. It is difficult to be objective when you have immersed yourself from start to finish but I’m not sure how well this would be as a stand alone. I think suffice to say - it wouldn’t be as enjoyable and you would have missed 2 excellent reads that go before - so start at the beginning and strap yourself in for the ride.

The book is thrilling because of the way it focuses on the characters, especially the choices that Colette must make that will change the course of her life forever. The plot is to find the mole or is it a rat the twist will leave you guessing all the way through and the suspension is there all the way through as well. Its hard to put down like the others have been but I think this ones the best or is it that I've just read it whatever the answer it was a fantastic read.Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Transworld Publishers for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes. What is perhaps most pertinent in all the thrills, action and misadventures of Kate that assail her is that they have a ring of truth - like news headlines Tom has yet to read. These are spy novels we traditionally love to read. Fast-paced, contemporary and bringing an immediate and constant threat of danger to the principle characters.

There are resonant echoes of le Carré here–in the way the betrayals reach from marriage beds to the seats of governments–but there is also a distinctly contemporary feeling in the idea that truth, even when it’s discoverable, may no longer matter.”– Booklist (starred review), on Secret Service The identity of the mole also doesn't make any sense whatsoever, as it contradicts many clues that were given in books one and two, not to mention that the reasons given for that betrayal were not only weak, but also unconvincing and downright stupid. As I wrote previously these books are closer to George Smiley’s world to that of James Bond. There is still plenty of action along with the kind of twists and revelations that are integral to well written espionage fiction. Teems with twists and the denouement is imaginative and unexpected.”– Times (UK), on Secret ServiceAs with the earlier books, Bradby excels in his portrayal of the interplay of personal and professional relationships in the secret service, reminding me of Len Deighton’s Bernard Samson novels. The details of the investigation are well handled and convincing, and the characters are carefully wrought and interesting. Bradby’s depiction of Kate’s deteriorating emotional state and her questioning of her earlier conclusions is particularly well done and powerful. The Master of Ruin” is the third stand alone novel and was released in the year 2002. Shanghai in the year 1926. A city of American gun-runners, British Imperial civil servants, Chinese gangsters, and Russian princesses, where everything is for sale and heroin is available on room service. Sexually liberated, exotic, and pulsing with life, it is a time and place where it all seems possible. Bradby has the talent of a reporter but the heart of a storyteller.”— Daily Mail, on The God of Chaos