Secret Service
Will be published approx. on 26. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-80499-863-2 (ISBN)
Description
Now a major TV series starring Gemma Arterton
'A cracking uber-topical spy thriller' Financial Times
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The world is on the brink of crisis.
A new Cold War is playing out on the global stage.
Governments will do whatever it takes to stay at the top...
To those who don't know her, Kate Henderson's life must seem perfectly ordinary. Civil servant, wife, mother. But in reality she is a senior MI6 officer, who right now is holding the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
Kate's most recent mission has yielded the startling intelligence that the British Prime Minister has cancer - and that one of the leading candidates to replace him may be a Russian agent of influence.
Up against the clock to uncover the mole, Kate risks everything to uncover the truth. But with her reputation to uphold, her family hanging by a thread and a leadership election looming, she is out of options - and out of time. Will she be able to close the case before it closes her?
Praise for Secret Service
'Enthralling and fast-moving' Daily Mail
'An excellent thriller straight out of today's headlines... A fast, riveting yarn' Sun
'Atmospheric and richly entertaining.. Political intrigue of the highest order' Washington Post
'A cracking uber-topical spy thriller' Financial Times
_________
The world is on the brink of crisis.
A new Cold War is playing out on the global stage.
Governments will do whatever it takes to stay at the top...
To those who don't know her, Kate Henderson's life must seem perfectly ordinary. Civil servant, wife, mother. But in reality she is a senior MI6 officer, who right now is holding the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb.
Kate's most recent mission has yielded the startling intelligence that the British Prime Minister has cancer - and that one of the leading candidates to replace him may be a Russian agent of influence.
Up against the clock to uncover the mole, Kate risks everything to uncover the truth. But with her reputation to uphold, her family hanging by a thread and a leadership election looming, she is out of options - and out of time. Will she be able to close the case before it closes her?
Praise for Secret Service
'Enthralling and fast-moving' Daily Mail
'An excellent thriller straight out of today's headlines... A fast, riveting yarn' Sun
'Atmospheric and richly entertaining.. Political intrigue of the highest order' Washington Post
Reviews / Votes
A gripping thriller * The Sunday Times * Enthralling and fast-moving . . . packed with details of modern tradecraft in the twilight world of spooks, against a background of politics at its most Machiavellian, it is the stuff headlines are made of * Daily Mail * Teems with twists and the denouement is imaginative and unexpected * The Times * An excellent thriller straight out of today's headlines ... a fast, riveting yarn * The Sun * A cracking, uber-topical spy thriller ...Bradby deftly works in current fears of Moscow infiltrating our institutions amid a plot full of twists and turns * Financial Times * A strong dose of international politics with an all-too-plausible premise * Jonathan Freedland, The Observer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80499-863-2 (9781804998632)
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E-Book
05/2019
1st Edition
Transworld Digital
€8.99
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Person
TOM BRADBY is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He has written nine previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, and its two sequels, Double Agent and Triple Cross. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards.
As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV's News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst Covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor- a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.
As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV's News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst Covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor- a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.