Alan Judd No. 2 Whitehall Court : THE NEW SPY THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF

A Telegraph Best Crime and Thrillers of 2025 selectionTHE NEW FIRST WORLD WAR SPY THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENREJudd, a veteran spy novelist and former diplomat, knows his way around Britains world of shadows. He takes the reader straight back to the start of the first world war and the long, smokefilled, gloomy corridors of Whitehall ministries, Financial TimesEmily Grey proves so engaging that I hope shell keep going into the Cold War, Jake Kerridge, Daily TelegraphVeteran spy writer Alan Judd eschews easy drama and obvious cliffhangers in this elegantly written novelLiterary ReviewIn the glorious summer of 1914, Emily Grey, a young Cambridge undergraduate, is studying German in Heidelberg. While there she meets Hans, a philosopher with grey eyes and long lashes, who wins her heart and asks her to marry him. When the First World War intervenes, however, she is forced to return to England, leaving Hans behind to join the Imperial Navy. A year later, Emily is recruited to serve in a recently established government department. Commander Cumming, head of His Majestys newlyformed Secret Service sometimes also known as MI6 is keen to make use of Emilys language skills. Assigned to interview an informer known as The Dane, she learns of a plot so audacious it has the potential to change the entire course of the war. At Rosyth in Scotland, the home of the British Grand Fleet, Emily must work undercover to locate the mole the heart of the British naval establishment. Who is... | Alan Judd No. 2 Whitehall Court : THE NEW SPY THRILLER FROM THE MASTER OF