Charles Cumming for ICARUS 17

A Young Couple on the Run

Max Radinsky thought he was living the perfect life in Athens. But when his girlfriend, Yasmine, is forced to flee the city, he joins her on a desperate journey across Greece.

What begins as an escape becomes a fight for survival as the young couple become the targets of an international manhunt. Untrained and living off their wits, they know their luck won't last forever.

A Spy Hunts Them Down

Lachlan Kite, head of covert intelligence service BOX 88, hasn't seen his former lover, Martha Raine, for more than twenty years. But when Martha begs his help in finding her missing son, Kite has no choice but to act.

They uncover something worse than either could have imagined. Yasmine is carrying a secret which could destabilise the Middle East for a generation, and a team of merciless Israeli intelligence agents have been given orders to kill her on sight.

To save Max, and stop a global crisis, Kite and Martha must reach the young couple before their pursuers close in.

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. Shortly after university, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), an experience that inspired his first novel, A Spy by Nature. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including A Foreign Country which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year. He worked on Sky's acclaimed drama The Day of the Jackal and was the screenwriter of the Gerard Butler movie Plane.