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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The early period, this time in Russia, is well done and adds nicely to the life and character we met in the first novel Box 88. The second book in Charles Cumming’s gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 – a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. The contemporary element is more complex and involves an veritable army of characters, this I found slightly less satisfying. In 1993, a student, Lachlan Kite is employed as a spy and sent as an undercover teacher to Russia by secret intelligence agency Box 88. 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. 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.There would be ‘collateral damage’ along the way and young Lachlan Kite would somehow have to get used to it. The mission doubles as a way to frame the Russian officer as revenge for some of the fallout of the 1993 mission. I found that the story of Kite’s visit to and escape from Russia had echoes of Ben Macintyre’s true life book The Spy and the Traitor and in this respect, though the methods were somewhat different, it rang true and therefore had all the more impact.

In the present, a former Russian General is murdered with Novichok in a horrifying, manner in the Adirondacks in the U. The fact that Putin's Russian thugs continue to feel free to murder people in the UK, safe in the knowledge that there will be no effective deterrence, makes the plot of this book more relevant than the average thriller. His second novel, The Hidden Man (2003), tells the story of two brothers investigating the murder of their father, a former SIS officer, at the hands of the Russian mafia.A sequel, entitled A Colder War, in which Kell investigates a traitor inside western intelligence, was published in 2014. Where freshly recruited Kite abandons his summer plans to carry out the Aranov operation at short notice. The Judas List comprises of Russian enemies and traitors who are targeted by the FSB for revenge kills usually using nerve agents such as Novichok. A bunch of US and UK intelligence officers, disillusioned with the constraints imposed by bureaucrats and politicians on their respective services, have for years been running a totally secret, trans-Atlantic organisation of their own, which is somehow very well-funded and equipped with some impressive, high-tech kit.