How to Betray Your Country

By James Wolff

Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of unprecedented security breaches… and now his neighbour on the flight to Istanbul won't stop talking. The only thing keeping him sane is the hunch there's something suspicious about the nervous young man several rows ahead – a hunch that is confirmed when August watches him throw away directions to an old cemetery moments before being detained by Turkish police. When August decides to go in his place, it sets him on a path from which there may be no return…

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781913394530

James Wolff

James Wolff worked for the British government for over ten years before leaving to write spy fiction. His first novel, Beside the Syrian Sea, was a Times Crime Book of the Month and an Evening Standard Book of the Year. Of his second novel, How to Betray Your Country, the Spectator wrote that it marked 'the arrival of a major talent.' James Wolff lives in London.