**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024****INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**’Imagine Slow Horses Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer s character in Killing Eve’ SUNDAY TIMES’Compulsively readable… Kill Bill written by John le Carr ‘ OBSERVERSeductive and cunning American spy-for-hire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.Her mission: to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Bruno s idealism laughable, but just as she is certain she s the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.’The most exciting writer of her generation’ BRET EASTON ELLIS’Reinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture’ HERNAN DIAZ
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