Description

Six weeks before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene vanishes without a trace. Her disappearance is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced for more than a decade. There has been no ransom demand, no word from foreign intelligence services, no hint of a defection. Should news of Levene s disappearance leak out, the consequences would be catastrophic.

But for disgraced MI6 officer Thomas Kell, the crisis offers a chance for redemption. He is approached by his former employers and ordered to find her. Kell s search takes him first to France, then North Africa, where he discovers an extraordinary secret hidden deep in Levene s past. It is a secret that could fatally compromise Britain s national security – and for which Kell could pay with his life.