Binding: Hardcover
Description: The past comes back to haunt MI 6 secret agent Cordelia Hemlock in this spy thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark" Top - level espionage fiction" - Booklist Starred Review Cordelia Hemlock is teetering on the verge of joining MI 6 when she meets the enigmatic Walt a high - ranking member of the Secret Intelligence Service who tells her: They won't want you to do well. They won't ever trust you. They don't trust me and I'm one of them. She takes this as a challenge rather than a warning. She wants to protect the nation. Serve Queen and country. Who would turn down such a glorious opportunity? Fourteen years later Cordelia is desk - bound after finishing an undercover operation and going quietly mad with boredom. So when the call comes through on the top - secret Pandora line - so - called after the locked - box the telephone is kept in - she answers it. It's Walt. No longer officially MI 6, he still inhabits the murky world of intelligence where information always comes with a price. He tells her he has a secret to share with her - and only her. And once she knows it nothing will ever be the same again A follow - up to the critically acclaimed psychological thriller The Mausoleum this is a twisty page - turning tale of friendship and divided loyalties set against the dark forbidding landscape of the rural Borderlands.
Title: The Whispering Dead
Author(s): Mark David
Publisher: Canongate Books
Barcode: 9780727850553
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 12/6/2022
Series: A Cordelia Hemlock Novel
Category: Historical Mysteries