JUDAS 62 (BOX 88, Book 2)

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The second book in Charles Cummings gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar.
A spy in one of the most dangerous places on Earth
1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia in the guise of a language teacher. In reality, he is there as a spy. Top secret intelligence agency BOX 88 has ordered Kite to extract a chemical weapons scientist before his groundbreaking research falls into the wrong hands. But Kites mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded in a hostile city with a former KGB officer on his trail.

An old enemy looking for revenge
2020: Now the director of BOX 88 operations in the UK, Kite discovers he has been placed on the JUDAS list a record of enemies of Russia who have been targeted for assassination. Kites fight for survival takes him to Dubai, where he must confront the Russian secret state head on

Who will come out on top in this deadly game of cat and mouse

Judas 62 has all you could want from a tense, topical and intelligent spy thriller The Times Books of the Year

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Often hailed as the heir to John le Carr, Charles Cumming sets out his credentials as well as he ever has in Judas 62. The Times

The storytelling is first-rate, with all the minutiae of spycraft, sense of place and memorable supporting characters you could wish for Sunday Times

Tense and topical, this has all you could want from an intelligent contemporary spy thriller The Times, Books of the Year

The first Kite novel was excellent, but this is even better an elegant exposition of what being a spy in the field actually feels like and the fear it can instil in even the most hardened operator. Superbly constructed, it never hurries, but evokes the world of espionage in a way the late John le Carre would have much admired Daily Mail

This sequel to Cummings stunning Box 88 is further proof that the author is one of the most adroit practitioners of the espionage art; the spycraft involving a covert intelligence group operating below the radar is nonpareil i

Some of the best writing around on the intricacies of spycraft and the high price agents pay for doing their job Sun

Intelligent, relevant and engrossing NB Magazine

Cumming adroitly portrays Kites inner lifenail-biting Financial Times

Cumming knows his stuff and has done his research, giving the novel an admirably authoritative air The Literary Review

Charles Cumming knows how to write a good spy novel The Herald

The gold standard in espionage fiction Kirkus

Author Bio

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He was educated at Eton and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 with First Class Honours in English Literature. The Observer has described him as "the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carr and Len Deighton left off". In the summer of 1995, Charles was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6. A Spy By Nature was published in the UK in 2001.