The Whispering Dead (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780727850553)

The past comes back to haunt MI6 secret agent Cordelia Hemlock in this spy thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark - "Top-level espionage fiction" (Booklist Starred Review)

Cordelia Hemlock is teetering on the verge of joining MI6 when she meets the enigmatic Walt, a high-ranking member of the Secret Intelligence Service, who tells her: They won't want you to do well. They won't ever trust you. They don't trust me and I'm one of them. She takes this as a challenge rather than a warning. She wants to protect the nation. Serve Queen and country. Who would turn down such a glorious opportunity?

Fourteen years later, Cordelia is desk-bound after finishing an undercover operation and going quietly mad with boredom. So when the call comes through on the top-secret Pandora line - so-called after the locked-box the telephone is kept in - she answers it.

It's Walt. No longer officially MI6, he still inhabits the murky world of intelligence, where information always comes with a price. He tells her he has a secret to share with her - and only her. And once she knows it, nothing will ever be the same again . . .

A follow-up to the critically acclaimed psychological thriller The Mausoleum, this is a twisty, page-turning tale of friendship and divided loyalties set against the dark, forbidding landscape of the rural Borderlands.

Author: David Mark
ISBN-10: 0727850555
ISBN-13: 9780727850553
Publisher: Severn House
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2022
Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2022