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JUDAS 62: The gripping new spy action thriller featuring BOX 88 from the master of the 21st century spy novel (BOX 88, Book 2)

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Then we switch to the modern day and his old mission becomes relevant again, and Kite and his team may have to sacrifice everything to resolve issues from the past. In the early segment of the story, he has to try to arrange the exfiltration of a Russian weapons scientist from the dreary city of Voronezh while posing as a teacher of English. After a lifetime working with BOX 88, the transatlantic counterintelligence agency so covert that not even the CIA knows of its existence, master spy Lachlan Kite has made plenty of enemies. You sit here in this house and tell us that you didn't plan the assassination of Yuri Aranov, that you didn't bring a Novichok and a radioactive isotope into Dubai. In 2012, Charles won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year for A Foreign Country.

He was educated at Eton College (1985-1989) and the University of Edinburgh (1990-1994), where he graduated with 1st Class Honours in English Literature.The supporting cast are again pretty well developed/developing, with some very good aspects in play around MI6 operatives and covers. A Foreign Country, his sixth novel, concerning the disappearance of the first female Chief of MI6, was published in 2012. In fact, in this episode Lachlan heads up the British end and discovers to his horror that he’s on a list of people the Russians are planning to assassinate. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.

In 2020, Kite learns he is on the 'JUDAS' list, a list of enemies of Russia, who are to be assassinated. He was educated at Eton College (1985-1989) and the University of Edinburgh (1990-1994), where he graduated with First Class Honours in English Literature. A former British Secret Service recruit, he is a contributing editor of The Week magazine and lives in London. The investigations soon get the attention of Kite and Box 88 as they discover an FSB plot to track down these traitors known as Judas with each given a specific number. In the first timeline, it’s 1993 and Kite accepts an assignment to go to Russia undercover to spirit out a scientist who will otherwise be used by the Russian state to develop chemical weapons.My thanks to HarperCollins UK and NetGalley for supplying a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This novel begins with the assassinations of former Soviet traitors with references to real life affairs such as Litvinenko and the Skripal poisonings.

Judas 62 is the second in Comings’s Box 88 series, featuring Lachlan Kite the London head of BOX 88. Cumming’s stories have potential, but when it comes to the books in their entirety, they just fall a little short (and long) with what I am looking to read. S., assassinated by Putin's FSB (ex-KGB) agents as a traitor, one of many targets on their Judas List.

Comparisons to Le Carre are way off-beam though I think as Cumming is less cerebral and more “obvious” in his plots and character motivations.

I had to chuckle at this relatable tidbit: “a recycling bucket marked ‘supposedly saving the planet. This is his cover to connect with Yuri Aranov, a scientist with biochemical knowledge the US does not want getting into the wrong hands— a mission of defense rather than offense. The first Kite novel was excellent, but this is even better ― an elegant exposition of what being a spy in the field actually feels like and the fear it can instil in even the most hardened operator.

The second book in Charles Cumming's gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 - a covert intelligence organization that operates beneath the radar. It picks up not long after the previous novel ended, with lead protagonist Lachlan ‘Lockie’ Kite, London Head of Box 88 (a secretly funded intelligence organisation working under similar remits to the CIA and MI6) learning about the death in America of a scientist. I’m not sure if I’ll continue this series because of the swearing, the widespread lust and sexual content, the length (including a lot of information or parts that seemed unnecessary), the confusion.

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