HARDBACK BOOK OF THE MONTH
Alias Emma
by Ava Glass
Published by Century
Price £14.99
Pages 400
ISBN 9781529135886
Russia never forgives or forgets, and 20 years after several high-profile scientists defected, they are murdered in London by a group of highly trained assassins. Emma Makepeace is a young recruit to The Agency, a secretive branch of the intelligence service, released from undercover work among eco-warriors to bring a reluctant Dr Michael Primalov, whose physicist parents are primary targets, to safety. And so begins a nail-biting, action-packed cat and mouse race across London. The Russians have hacked the city’s CCTV system, their every move is being watched and there seems