‘Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.’ Charles CummingbrbrLondon, mid-1970s.A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flyng, foreign office minister, the tperature rises with each passing hour. A mysterious death exposes secret passions in government, and a political crisis draws him into a familiar world of danger and deceit.brbrFlyng has a past. Trained as a spy to live with secrets, he is alone again. In the course of one long weekend, friendships face destruction and all his loyalties are put to the test.brbrHis hazardous journey takes him to old battlefields and the dark places where London and Washington do their most secret business, in an era brought brilliantly to life by a writer steeped in the story of Flyng’s world.brbrFrom one of our best-known BBC broadcasters comesa sophisticated thriller about loyalty, survival and family rivalry deep in the Cold War, drawing on decadesof experience as a political insider in Westminsterand Washington.brbr'Hugely satisfying... Grips from the first page to the last.'Kate Mossebr‘Addictive. The reader has to piece together a drip-feed of clues.’Independentbr‘A slow-burning, cerebral and gripping thriller which fuses the entwined professions of politics and espionage.’Heraldp