A shadow intelligence
β Scribed by Oliver Harris
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;HMH Books
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 320 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Kazakhstan
- ISBN
- 035817189X
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β¦ Synopsis
There is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane - mercurial, inquisitive, free-floating. He's spent fifteen years managing events overseas that never make the papers, deniable and deeply effective. 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 moves from merely infiltrating events to steering them. He's used to a new mode of hybrid psychological warfare - but snowbound Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. Poised between China, Russia and the West, dictatorship and democracy, 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...
β¦ Subjects
Politics
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