Rating: 4/5
Review:
Another decent spy thriller from Tom Bradby
Double Agent is another readable spy thriller from Tom Bradby. It
follows on directly from Secret Service and I would strongly
recommend that you read Secret Service first.
Kate and the rest of
the small MI6 circle concerned are trying to recover after the events
of last time. The question of whether there is still a high-level
traitor remains, and Kate is now offered evidence by Mikhail. There
again begins an operation to determine the veracity of this and we
get more office and political manoeuvring, Kate putting herself in
danger again and so on. It’s all pretty well done and Tom Bradby
knows a lot about what he is writing about here – perhaps to the
point of overdoing the detail at times.
Alongside this is
Kate’s struggle with insomnia and anxiety. Again, Bradby knows a
lot about this, writes pretty well about it and it is a very
important subject, but for me I didn’t fit comfortably with the
style of spy thriller in the rest of the book. I found the two
aspects distracted from each other rather than enhanced the book and
I struggled a bit as a result.
I don’t want to be
too critical; Double Agent is perfectly readable, it has good things
about it and I’m sure there will be a third novel in the series
which I shall probably read. I hope it is a little more tightly
focussed, though, and branches out from the slightly samey structure
of the first two.
(My thanks to Random
House for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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