Games Traitors Play

“The perfect post-Bond spy...Move over, Jason Bourne.” —Bookpage

Salim Dhar is the world's most wanted terrorist. The CIA is under pressure to hunt him down, after he narrowly failed to kill the President. But no one can find him. Only Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, knows where he is. He pursues Dhar up into the mountains outside Marrakech, where he sees an unmarked military helicopter take off. Is someone shielding Dhar to perpetrate an act of terrorism on the West? Or is the CIA right when it claims to have killed him?
To discover the truth, Marchant must be recruited by Moscow. It's a role that will require him to rekindle rumours that his late father was a traitor and confront dark truths about his own loyalties. In an absorbing thriller that combines the nuances of Cold War espionage with the ejector-seat excitement of Top Gun, Marchant discovers that treachery is the greatest game of all.

JON STOCK, a former Delhi correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, writes a column for The Week magazine in India, and has contributed to BBC Radio 4. He is the author of Dead Spy Running as well as two previous novels. He lives in Wiltshire, UK.

Praise for Dead Spy Running:

“As elegant as Le Carré and as cynical as the twentyfirst century…exactly what we need from a spy novel now.” —Lee Child
“Twisty and relentless. Stock has brought the literary spy novel into the 21st century.” —Portsmout h Herald “A rip-roaring race of a read that never lets up.”—Robert Godd ard