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Goldsboro Books

978-1784080235

The Spy Across the Water

The Spy Across the Water

by James Naughtie

Publisher Head of Zeus

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About the book

From one of our most treasured BBC broadcasters, The Spy Across the Water is the third instalment in James Naughtie's brilliant spy series, about three brothers whose lives are entwined with the intelligence service.

We live with our history, but it can kill us.

Will Flemyng, originally trained as a spy, is now British ambassador to Washington. Meanwhile, his older brother Mungo is recuperating from a heart attack in their beloved Scottish-highland family home, and Abel, the youngest of the three, has died mysteriously in America.

Abel's unexplained death sets in motion an unstoppable chain of events, beginning with an unexpected glimpse of a face at his funeral. Soon Will finds himself on a dangerous journey into his clandestine past, from conflict in Ireland to the long shadows of the Cold War.

Will possesses a silky veneer, but he often doesn't know who to trust, nor who trusts him. Now he finds himself alone once again as duty forces him to risk everything...

Why has the past come back to haunt him now?

About the Author

James Naughtie

For many years a political correspondent on The Scotsman and then The Guardian, Jim Naughtie became a household name first as presenter of Radio 4’s The World at One and then of The Today Programme. He is now a special correspondent for BBC News and presents Radio 4’s Bookclub, and has also chaired the Man Booker and Samuel Johnson judging panels.

Jim has written widely within non-fiction and politics, including The Rivals (Fourth Estate, 2001), an intimate portrait of the political marriage between Blair and Brown (which became the TV feature The Deal) and The Accidental American (Pan Macmillan, 2004) on the relationship between Blair and the USA. The Making of Music (John Murray, 2007) grew out of his radio series of the same name, and The New Elizabethans (HarperCollins, 2012) portrays sixty portraits of people who shaped, or embodied, the spirit of Britain during the Queen’s reign.

His political travel memoir, On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump (Simon & Schuster, 2020), charts fifty years of crisscrossing America reporting for Today; ‘Naughtie’s love of America is woven through every page’ (The Sunday Times).

He has also written a trilogy of political thrillers, published by Head of Zeus: The Madness of July (2014), Paris Spring (2016), and The Spy Across The Water (2023). They have been praised as ‘hugely gripping and atmospheric’ by the Mail on Sunday and ‘as convincing as any of John le Carré’s’ by the Independent.

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