Everyone must be viewed with suspicion and it's a great idea to be as cynical as Diogenes if you're involved in the spy game. The story twists back and forth with some exciting surprises and misdirection to throw readers off the scent as to where the plot may be heading. This is compulsive and engaging spy fiction written with Harris’ trademark elegance and featuring a plot crafted and woven to near perfection. So Elliott poses as an academic researcher and heads to one of the most remote places on the planet, the British Overseas Territory of Ascension Island.Īrriving on a rocky, barely livable island located in the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Brazil and Angola, Kane is unsure whom to trust and why this lonely outpost is so important to the British military until he uncovers dangerous secrets that lead straight back to London’s highest offices. The carrot in this offer is helping his old friend the stick is a worse punishment from the Agency if he doesn’t comply. The agency is afraid to finish this vital mission without knowing what prompted this seemingly healthy man to take his own life. One of her tech specialists was on a long-term mission, in deep cover, but has suddenly killed himself. Then a colleague from an ages-ago mission reaches out with a request. Having taken up a job teaching college literature and linguistics, he surprisingly enjoys living a conventional life and wonders if he would even go back to spycraft. Despite uncovering a deep plot to incite a new world war, Elliot Kane has been on probation with the service since his misadventures in Kazakhstan. Ascension is the sophomore instalment in the Elliot Kane series featuring the former MI6 spy.
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