''Here''s a novel to make the great and the good quake.... Harris writes with compassion or satirical glee, depending on which his characters deserve, and this third Kane novel puts him firmly in the Mick Herron class'' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
''Captivating and horrifying... Oliver Harris is squarely in the territory of the greats: Greene and le Carr-ut also the modern masters, Mick Herron and Adam Brookes. There can be no higher accolade'' Manda Scott
How does a secret service confront its past, when its secrets must never be revealed?
Buried deep in MI6''s digital archives is the most classified directory of all. It doesn''t contain war plans or agent profiles, but shame: the misdeeds of politicians, royalty, business leaders and the service''s own personnel.
There are seven decades'' worth of images and recordings, usually acquired for the sake of assessing risk, sometimes as a guard against betrayal, of
