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By: David McCloskey
Narrated by: George Naylor, Vanessa Daniels
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What if the CIA and MI6 began spying on each other? Artemis Procter returns in David McCloskey's electrifying new spy thriller.

'A rare combination of experience and talent' Mick Herron

'The best spy novel I have ever read' Anthony Beevor

What if the CIA and British intelligence began spying on each other? This is the question at the heart of David McCloskey's thrilling fifth novel. A new US Administration has taken office, installing a brash and unconventional CIA Director determined to disrupt the Agency and sceptical of its close relationship with their cousins across the Atlantic. Case officers, including newly installed London Chief of Station, Artemis Procter, must now navigate a tense environment as old friends become adversaries and no one knows who to trust. When agents run by both services begin dying, Procter and her team at London Station must decide whether loyalty to the Mission and their friends means disobeying the Agency they serve.

Immersing readers in the technological revolution upending intelligence tradecraft, David McCloskey's brilliant new thriller depicts the nuts-and-bolts mechanics of how CIA and MI6 collaborate and explores what happens when politics threaten to destroy the 'Special Relationship' between America and Britain.©2026 David McCloskey Espionage Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Exciting England
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Loved the plot and the overall story unfortunately was marred by the very poor narration. Sometimes it felt like it was being read by an AI bot eg MI5 being read as M one 5 and very bad English accents read by American actor (or bot..!)

Poor narration

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I've always enjoyed his books, with the possible exception of The Persian, and it's great to have the familiar characters back. But this is marred by really subpar reading.
- The multiple voices seem not to work very well.
- This seems to be just basic errors. At one point, they refer to M15, presumably MI5. Similarly, they just don't seem to be able to pronounce certain words correctly, even basic words, never mind place names like Wythenshawe.

It's just really odd this has survived the review process without being corrected. It really mars the experience and starts to annoy!

Great story. Terrible reading.

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Great characterisations Empathetic heroes Despicable villains Multiple plot threads skill fully intertwined Totally compelling listening

Excellent pacey spy thriller

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I love David McCloskey titles, but am unpersuaded by the fact that sections alternate between male and female narrators. WRT this book specifically, the editorial/production process was not as good as it should be. In particular the male narrator spelled out by initials words like H-U-M-I-N-T and S-I-G-I-N-T, rather than reading them as the one word acronyms they are supposed to be, ie HUMINT and SIGINT. These are terms used widely across spy novels so they do jar when spelled out in the narration. Also female narrator referred to M ONE 5, rather than MI5 on one occasion. Finally, place names (esp the London locations, but also the name of the Maldivian location) were mis-pronounced the same way by the two narrators' voices, which as a British listener was slightly annoying. Overall frustration, though, is that proper editorial review should have picked these up.

Loved the book, but narration inconsistencies poor

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The story itself is up there with McCloskey’s best, as are the characters. I wish I’d read it rather than listened though. Terrible AI-like mispronunciations like SIGINT and HUMINT spelled out by their initials, and “MI5” as “M-one-five”.

Apposite and provocative story, let down by poor narration

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