Icarus 17'Nobody writes more enjoyable spy thrillers than Charles Cumming ANTHONY HOROWITZ Cumming has breathed new life into the spy novel BEN MACINTYRE 'The rightful inheritor of John le Carr's crown' OBSERVER Lachlan Kite should have left fieldwork behind by now. As director of covert intelligence agency Box 88, hes at the apex of his espionage career. But when Martha Raine a woman he hasnt seen in twenty years begs for his help, Kite finds himself back in

the library is magnificent

Set in a fragmented

and has a Syldrathi army at her back

he was already dead

hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service's history

The Winthers’ only daughter

Can DS Manon Bradshaw fend them off

Alexos must embark on his perilous journey to right an ancient wrong

and the war is well and truly over

Through a long line of corrupt kings

Ryan treats her better than Jake ever has

One battle