A Reluctant Spy – September 2024 Crime Collective

RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME.WRONG MAN.

‘In the very top tier of espionage fiction’M. W. CRAVEN
‘A twisting, edge-of-your-seat tale of mercenaries, greed, corruption, and espionage’I.S. BERRY
‘Ultra-modern espionage, globe-trotting action and high-octane fun – this is Spooks on steroids’TIM GLISTER

Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company, a long way from the tough upbringing that drove him to rise so far and so quickly.

But he has a secret…since the age of 23, he’s had a helping hand from the Legend Programme, a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people, living real lives, willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs, influence and access.

When his tap on the shoulder finally comes, it’s swiftly followed by the thud of a body. Arriving at a French airport ready to hand over his identity, Jamie finds his primary contact dead, the agent who’s supposed to step into his life AWOL and his options for escape non-existent.

Pitched into a deadly mission on hostile territory, Jamie must contend with a rogue Russian general, arms dealers, elite hackers, CIA tac-ops and the discovery of a brewing plan for war. Dangerously out of his depth, he must convince his sceptical mission handler he can do the job of a trained field agent while using his own life story as convincing cover.

Can Jamie play himself well enough to avoid being killed – and to avert a lethal global conflict?

‘I was on the edge of my seat the whole time’ANTONY JOHNSTON
‘A rip-roaring page-turning keep-you-up-all-night thriller’NICHOLAS BINGE, author of ASCENSION
‘Smart, riveting, and eerily prescient’SUNYI DEAN,Sunday TimesBestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS
‘A pulse-pounding, twisting thrill-a-minute read that Slow Horses fans are going to absolutely love’ADAM SIMCOX