Triple Cross

Kate Henderson, a former MI6 officer, has left intelligence work behind and is trying to rebuild her life in the south of France. Her quiet routine is broken when the UK Prime Minister arrives unexpectedly with an urgent claim. A Russian agent has told him that he has been the target of the most elaborate deception operation in MI6's history.

According to the defector, the scheme is run by a secret unit within the KGB whose only task is to process the information supplied by an agent called Dante, a mole placed at the heart of MI6 in London. Against her own better judgement, Kate is drawn back into a classified inquiry that is both risky and badly compromised. Her former colleagues no longer trust her, and her enemies don't either, which makes every move more perilous. The story asks whether the truth can ever come to light, and at what cost.

This edition also includes an extract from Tom Bradby's latest novel, Yesterday's Spy.