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The Shame Archive
(Paperback)
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Paperback
Published: 17th September 2024
Paperback
Published: 13th May 2025
Hardback
Published: 12th November 2024
Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Shame Archive
Contributors:
By (Author) Oliver Harris
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:
Abacus
Publication Date:
17th September 2024
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Main Subject:
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
336
Dimensions:
Width 154mm, Height 234mm, Spine 34mm
Weight:
408g
Description
How does a secret service confront its past, when secrets are kept for ever
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, often engineered by MI6 for their own purposes. These amount to the most sensitive two thousand terabytes of data in the Service's possession. When material from the archive begins appearing online, the panic is widespread.At first, the security breach only manifests itself in apparently random events: a suicide, a disappearance, a breakdown. But when it turns out that the individuals concerned were all contacted by the same anonymous person, a connection comes into focus. The archive has somehow leaked. The hunt is now of unprecedented urgency. That's when they call for Elliot Kane...Author Bio
Oliver Harris was born in London but now lives in South Korea. He is the author of the Nick Belsey series of crime novels, plus two novels featuring MI6 officer Elliot Kane. He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
