A Reluctant Spy (inbunden, eng)

RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME. WRONG MAN.

''A rip-roaring page-turning keep-you-up-all-night thriller'' NICHOLAS BINGE, author of ASCENSION
''Smart, riveting, and eerily prescient'' SUNYI DEAN, Sunday Times Bestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS
''A pulse-pounding, twisting thrill-a-minute read that Slow Horses fans are going to absolutely love'' ADAM SIMCOX

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 bodyArriving 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 warDangerously 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?