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. Riveting...with style and energy, evocative scene-setting and strong characterisation' Financial Times She was arrested in the aborted bombing attempt in London, and she is given two options: talk to them and see her kids again, or remain quiet and spend the rest of her days seeing them grow up while she is behind prison bars. Quite exceptional...Tom Bradby succeeds in creating real characters. Far too many novels take refuge in cliché and caricature - Bradby refuses to. The language, the tension, the fear - all are portrayed vividly and correctly...A taut, compelling story of love and torn loyalties'

Kate Henderson is a fully envisioned character, driven, brave and loyal at the heart of Britain’s secret service. Starting in the year 1990, he began working for ITN, producer of ITV News when he joined as an editorial trainee. After that, he became producer for ITV’s political editor Michael Brunson in 1992. Teems with twists and the denouement is imaginative and unexpected.”– Times (UK), on Secret Service The plotting is superb; convoluted so it’s impossible to second guess where the story is leading. Who’s at the heart of betrayal. It could be a husband, close friend, colleague, senior official or even the PM. The skill in the storytelling is that we’re kept guessing. The pace is fast, there’s a real sense of danger and excitement and I felt as if I’d been dropped into the middle of a world of espionage and double dealing.Her investigation to clear the PM’s name and find the mole in MI6 is not welcome by everyone and with the truth remaining elusive, time running out and no convincing proof she shows signs of great stress. She is forced to take increasing risks to reveal Russia’s malevolent influence. After this, he returned to Britain and started working as royal correspondent. During this time, he covered many important stories, including the deaths of Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Before long, he is on the run - not only from a faceless enemy, but from his own past. Which will catch up with him first? Attempting to rebuild her shattered life in the South of France, former MI6 operative Kate Henderson receives an unexpected and most unwelcome visit from an old adversary: the UK Prime Minister. He has an extraordinary story to tell - and he needs her help.

I love everything about the books, the double and treble crossing, the suspicions, the planning and the execution of operations, the travel and descriptions of the places, the dodgy diplomacy and most of all the characters, I believe in Kate and her family and associates and all the goodies and baddies she encounters, I invested in her and it so paid offThe key to the investigation appears to be Natasha Medvedev, Lena’s neighbor. Will Field be able to trust somebody for whom self-preservation is her only goal? Is wise to fall in love when there is every indication that Natasha herself could very well be the next victim? In a city where reality is a rather dangerous luxury, Field is lead into the darkness beyond all the dazzle of society and into a world where the basest of all human needs are met and where the truth appears to be a lethal commodity. Kate Henderson has left MI6 and is attempting to rebuild her life in the south of France with her children, Fiona, and Gus, who are hoping to see her reunite with their father Stuart. A visit from the British Prime Minister changes her plans. Tom’s debut novel, called “Shadow Dancer”, was released in the year 1998. He writes mystery and thriller novels. Trying to preserve what little progress has been made with her family, off Kate goes. Everything seems to be falling into place for her, pushing her in certain directions, a little too neatly. Is she being set up to reach a false conclusion? Is she being set up to take the fall as a Russian mole? Can she play the Russians into letting her husband go? Kate has a lot of masters, a lot of information, and she's playing several dangerous games at once, as she tries to close this chapter once and for all. Brad by is a gifted storyteller and Triple Cross is as exciting as the first two books in this series. It makes a change to have a female at the centre of the narrative and to see her domestic and professional worlds collide. So plausible and this is escapist spy fiction with more than a ring of truth.

Triple Cross opens with Kate retired from MI6 and trying to rebuild her shattered life, following the events in Double Agent, in the South of France. The pleasure of time with her family, however, is shattered by the arrival of the British Prime Minister and a request to re-enter the fray to determine once and for all, whether there is really a Russian mole, known as ‘Agent Dante’, at the heart of British Intelligence. Kate reluctantly accepts the task, for good reasons related to the earlier books, and finds herself commencing a dangerous investigation, which no one wants to succeed. These are spy novels we traditionally love to read. Fast-paced, contemporary and bringing an immediate and constant threat of danger to the principle characters.

Triple Cross

Kate has left her role at MI6 under somewhat of a cloud and is trying to rebuild her life in France where she is living with her two children, with whom she needs to reconnect. Everything she had in life has been turned upside down including losing her husband from whom she is now separated. Therefore, the last thing she wants is for the British Prime Minister to turn up unannounced on her doorstep. His reputation is at stake, largely due to Kate’s investigations in the previous novel in the series and he has come with an unbelievable story which he asks her to investigate. If true, it will clear his name and hopefully uncover a mole (Dante) who allegedly holds a senior position in the echelons of MI6. Against her better judgement and with a lot of bribery and arm-twisting, Kate accepts the challenges and leaves her children to work with her old team on an independent investigation sanctioned by the PM himself.

Overall, then, I have to say this: I will be sad to see Kate Henderson go. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading her journey as a human and as a spy trying to uncover the truth of a massive Russian disinformation campaign, but Triple Cross is Tom Bradby at his best: pushing down on the action accelerator while peppering the journey with enough sentimentality and plot twists to carry the reader along with him. I have enjoyed this trilogy very much. It is tightly plotted with Kate Henderson continuing to be a strong lead. All three novels have been five-star reads for me. To those who don't really know her, Kate Henderson's life must seem perfectly ordinary. But she is in fact a senior MI6 officer, who right now is nursing the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Attempting to rebuild her shattered life in the South of France, former MI6 operative Kate Henderson receives an unexpected and most unwelcome visit from an old the UK Prime Minister. He has an extraordinary story to tell - and he needs her help. The character of Kate is just terrific. She’s honest, brave and whip smart. First and foremost, Kate wants to do the right thing, but in the murky world of 21st century espionage it is not always clear what that is. If any of you are missing the Cold War espionage novels of the 1970s and 1980s, this series is for you.”– Deadly Pleasures, on Double Agent

A Russian agent has come forward with news that the PM has been the victim of the greatest misinformation play in the history of MI6. It’s run out of a special KGB unit that exists for one purpose alone: to process the intelligence from ‘Agent Dante’, a mole right at the heart of MI6 in London.