The Nursery (Paperback)

LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT (CWIP) PRIZE. KILLING EVE MEETS MICK HERRON IN THIS GRIPPING AND WITTY PAGE-TURNER ABOUT HAVING IT ALL, KEEPING IT ALL AND SURVIVING IT ALL. 'Brilliant' HUGH GRANT 'Takes spy fiction to a new level' CLAIRE ALLAN Lex Tyler is trying to have it all, but being a working mother is so much more difficult when you're a secret agent for an underground branch of the security services. Platform Eight have been tasked with tracking down and eliminating the traitor in MI6 who has been selling information to the highest bidder through a headhunting website for the criminal underworld that connects intelligence operatives with all manner of bad people with a simple right swipe. Deals get made. Secrets get sold. Missions fail. Agents die. It's down to Lex and her team to identify and eliminate the traitor before they assassinate China's Minister of Commerce and ruin relations between the UK and China forever. But when your husband doesn't know exactly what your job entails and the future of the intelligence services rests on your shoulders, can one working mother save the day? This is one mission that Lex cannot afford to fail.

General

Imprint:	Zaffre
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2019
Authors:	Asia Mackay
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-1-78576-564-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > General Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > General Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	1-78576-564-7
Barcode:	9781785765643

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Mon, 7 Oct 2019 | Review by: Breakaway R.

A cracking read that grows on you At first, I was not sure where this book was going, and the writing style took awhile to get used to, but once I grasped the storyline I was hooked. Alexis Tyler is part of a top secret organisation called Platform Eight, based in an unused part of the London underground. Her husband, family and friends have no idea what her day job involves, as far as they are concerned she works for the Government Communication and Data Specialisation Branch, doing a dull desk job. The reality is that she is a highly trained special operations agent, able to handle deadly weapons with ease, defend herself with unarmed combat, engage in high speed chases, tail secret agents and carry out dangerous and difficult missions, all this while juggling being a wife and mother to a two year old. The author has a wicked sense of humour, and I laughed out loud at some of the scrapes Lex gets herself into, and the lies she has to come up with on the spur of the moment to prevent her cover being blown are hilarious. The top secret mission she and her team are tasked with involves unmasking an online platform on the dark web that recruits mercenaries. The jobs advertised are certainly not your run of the mill type of posting, rather deadly operations involving assassinations and general mayhem. With this as the backdrop, Lex has to maintain her cover, juggle the demands of her family and prevent a high ranking Chinese official from being killed on British soil. The pace hots up, and the action is nonstop — a great read. Gillian Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review

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