The past comes back to haunt MI6 secret agent Cordelia Hemlock in this spy thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark"Toplevel espionage fiction" Booklist Starred Review Cordelia Hemlock is teetering on the verge of joining MI6 when she meets the enigmatic Walt, a highranking member of the Secret Intelligence Service, who tells her They wont want you to do well. They wont ever trust you. They dont trust me and Im one of them. She takes this as a challenge rather than a warning. She wants to protect the nation. Serve Queen and country. Who would turn down such a glorious opportunity?Fourteen years later, Cordelia is deskbound after finishing an undercover operation and going quietly mad with boredom. So when the call comes through on the topsecret Pandora line socalled after the lockedbox the telephone is kept in she answers it.Its Walt. No longer officially MI6, he still inhabits the murky world of intelligence, where information always comes with a price. He tells her he has a secret to share with her and only her. And once she knows it, nothing will ever be the same again . . .A followup to the critically acclaimed psychological thriller The Mausoleum, this is a twisty, pageturning tale of friendship and divided loyalties set against the dark, forbidding landscape of the rural Borderlands.

Binding: Hardback;224 pages; Publisher: Canongate Books; Classification: ; Weight: 534 g; Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 25

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