'A gripping, fast-moving and intelligent novel from new spy fiction star Oliver Harris' Irish Independent
MI6 needs men like Elliot Kane - mercurial, inquisitive, free floating. Kane is a ghost in his own life, picking up and dropping personalities as each new cover story comes into play. But when a woman he loves, Joanna Lake, vanishes without a trace in Kazakhstan, he is forced centre stage.
Drawn ever deeper into a realm of deception, Kane is used to psychological warfare - but snowbound Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. Poised between China, Russia and the West, state intelligence and an increasingly powerful world of private agencies, it's impossible to work out who is manipulating who. And Kane's not the only one trying to figure out where Joanna Lake has gone or what she learned before disappearing.
Unable to trust anyone, hunted by his own colleagues, and with the life of someone he loves at stake, Kane needs to work out who is driving events, and why...
'Tremendous evocation of modern Kazakhstan and the contemporary intelligence landscape. Scary if true, or even half true' Sunday Times Crime Club, star pick
'Kane has much in common with le Carré's Jerry Westerby' Irish Times
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A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London and
a beguiling bastard of a hero
