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Spy in the Blood
For fans of Slow Horses and Damascus Station, a gripping espionage thriller
By Paul Warner
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<p>'Terrifying - if you have children you'll never see them the same way again' - <b>RORY CLEMENTS<br></b><br>___________________________________<br><br><b>Mark Wolfe was the greatest spy of his generation.</b><br><b>Now he's been put out to pasture.</b><br><br>Gone are the days of dead-drops beneath railway station clocks in foreign lands that no longer exist - of dry-cleaning, double agents and triple crosses. Now Mark's stuck behind a desk in Vauxhall Cross in charge of recruiting the next wave of spooks, his only excitement fending off advances from deep-pocketed private security companies.<br><br>Yet his discontent is just another secret to add to the pile. As far as his wife and children are concerned, Mark is a quiet, affable civil servant who has no idea how to use the TV remote.<br><br>So when he discovers his daughter, Jody, has an unhealthy obsession with joining MI6, Mark is caught off guard. The Service is keeping her recruitment a secret from him - but why?<br><br>Then Jody disappears during a mission. And with MI6 washing their hands of her, Mark is thrust back into a terrifying new world of modern espionage.<br><br><b>A truly epic espionage thriller, <i>A Spy in the Blood</i> takes you from modern day London to Afghanistan as a once-legendary spy confronts the complex horrors of modern tradecraft. </b></p>
<p>'Terrifying - if you have children you'll never see them the same way again' - <b>RORY CLEMENTS<br></b><br>___________________________________<br><br><b>Mark Wolfe was the greatest spy of his generation.</b><br><b>Now he's been put out to pasture.</b><br><br>Gone are the days of dead-drops beneath railway station clocks in foreign lands that no longer exist - of dry-cleaning, double agents and triple crosses. Now Mark's stuck behind a desk in Vauxhall Cross in charge of recruiting the next wave of spooks, his only excitement fending off advances from deep-pocketed private security companies.<br><br>Yet his discontent is just another secret to add to the pile. As far as his wife and children are concerned, Mark is a quiet, affable civil servant who has no idea how to use the TV remote.<br><br>So when he discovers his daughter, Jody, has an unhealthy obsession with joining MI6, Mark is caught off guard. The Service is keeping her recruitment a secret from him - but why?<br><br>Then Jody disappears during a mission. And with MI6 washing their hands of her, Mark is thrust back into a terrifying new world of modern espionage.<br><br><b>A truly epic espionage thriller, <i>A Spy in the Blood</i> takes you from modern day London to Afghanistan as a once-legendary spy confronts the complex horrors of modern tradecraft. </b></p>