Box 88

Written by Charles Cumming

Narrated by Charlie Ansen

A secret agent comes of age-and reckons with the legacy of his first mission-in this thriller by New York Times bestseller Charles Cumming, "the best of the new generation of British spy writers" (The Observer)

Lachlan Kite is a member of BOX 88, an elite transatlantic black ops outfit so covert that not even MI6 and the CIA are certain of its existence-but even the best spy can't anticipate every potential threat in a world where dangerous actors lurk around every corner. At the funeral of his childhood best friend, Lachlan falls into a trap that drops him into the hands of a potentially deadly interrogation, with his pregnant wife, also abducted, being held as collateral for the information he's sworn on his own life to protect.

Thirty years earlier Lachlan, then just out of the upper class boarding school where he was reared, was BOX 88's newest recruit. In the haze of a gap year summer, in which the study of spycraft was intertwined with a journey of self-discovery, he cut his teeth on a special assignment on the coast of France, where a friendship allowed him special access to one of Iran's most dangerous men. Today, Lachlan's nostalgia for the trip is corrupted by recollection of the deceit that accompanied it but, in order to save his family, he'll be forced to revisit those painful memories one last time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Jan 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781696607599

Charles Cumming

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. In the summer of 1995, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6, and A Spy by Nature was published in the UK in 2001. In 2012, Charles won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year for A Foreign Country. A Divided Spy is his eighth novel.

Reviews for Box 88

[Jonnie Furmanchik · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I’m an espionage book junkie-different than what usually love…..Gray Man series, Orphan X, I Am Pilgrim(best espionage book I’ve EVER read!)
I enjoyed Box 88 and the narrator very much! It’s worth a listen/read!