'Lying for your country, Hellyer. Not as a diplomat – that takes years to perfect – but as someone undercover, someone who’s not what they seem.’
‘You don’t work for us and never have worked for us. This is what we would put out if you were rumbled. A rogue, a loose cannon — choose your cliché.’
Nick Hellyer is an accidental spy. Expelled in disgrace from Cambridge, he’s hurled into the contradictory and vibrant city of Alexandria as Egypt heads towards the 1967 Arab–Israeli War.
His double life as a secret agent mirrors the duplicities of his relationships. But when he stumbles on a war-changing secret, who can he trust not to betray or abandon him?
For fans of Charles Cumming and Philip Kerr
Pages
219
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Kernel Books
Release
January 29, 2018
Hellyer's Trip (The Nick Hellyer Espionage Series Book 1)
'Lying for your country, Hellyer. Not as a diplomat – that takes years to perfect – but as someone undercover, someone who’s not what they seem.’
‘You don’t work for us and never have worked for us. This is what we would put out if you were rumbled. A rogue, a loose cannon — choose your cliché.’
Nick Hellyer is an accidental spy. Expelled in disgrace from Cambridge, he’s hurled into the contradictory and vibrant city of Alexandria as Egypt heads towards the 1967 Arab–Israeli War.
His double life as a secret agent mirrors the duplicities of his relationships. But when he stumbles on a war-changing secret, who can he trust not to betray or abandon him?