Icarus 17

In the newest entry in Charles Cumming's bestselling BOX 88 series, master spy Lachlan Kite heads to Athens, Greece, after an old flame asks for help locating her missing son.Max Radinsky thought he was living the perfect life in Athens. But when his girlfriend, Yasmine, is forced to flee the city, Max joins her on a desperate journey across Greece. What begins as an escape becomes a fight for survival as the young couple are targeted by an international manhunt. Untrained and living off their wits, they know their luck wont last forever. Lachlan Kite, head of covert intelligence service BOX 88, hadnt seen his former lover, Martha Raine, for more than twenty years. But when Martha reaches out to beg for his help in finding her missing son, Kite has no choice but to act. What they uncover is worse than either could have imagined. Yasmine is carrying a secret which could destabilize the Middle East for a generationand a team of merciless Israeli intelligence agents have been given orders to kill her on sight. To save Maxand stop a global crisisKite and Martha must reach the young couple before their pursuers close in. A thrilling, complex tale, the depth of which is matched by its page-turning suspense, Icarus 17 once again proves Charles Cumming to be one of the greatest writers of the modern day spy novel.