Judas 62, Charles Cumming
Judas 62, Charles Cumming
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Judas 62

Author: Charles Cumming

Series: Box 88 #2

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Unabridged: 15 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2022


Synopsis

After a lifetime working with BOX 88, the transatlantic counterintelligence agency so covert that not even the CIA knows of its existence, master spy Lachlan Kite has made plenty of enemies. And now, as the director of the outfit's operations in the UK, one of those past enemies has him in their sights . . .

1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia, a spy in the guise of a language teacher. Embedded in the town of Voronezh, Kite's mission is to extract a chemical weapons scientist before the man's groundbreaking research falls into the wrong hands and shuttle him across the border to freedom in Ukraine. But Kite’s mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded in a hostile city with a former KGB officer on his trail.

2020: Thirty years after that dangerous mission, Kite discovers that its outcome put his name on the notorious "JUDAS" list—a record of enemies of Russia who have been targeted for assassination. Kite's fight for survival takes him to Dubai, a city crawling with international intelligence officers, where he enters into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the Russian secret state.

About Charles Cumming

Charles Cumming is a British writer of spy fiction. He was educated at Eton College (1985-1989) and the University of Edinburgh (1990-1994), where he graduated with 1st Class Honors in English Literature. He's been described as "the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carre and Len Deighton left off."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee on August 15, 2021

Lockie Kite #2 Box 88 is an Anglo-American deeply covert spy agency with Lachlan (Lockie) Kite being recruited whilst still a young man at Alford School. The Judas List comprises of Russian enemies and traitors who are targeted by the FSB for revenge kills usually using nerve agents such as Novichok.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on May 02, 2024

This is the second book featuring Lachlan Kite, who works a secret group of British and American ‘spooks’ called Box 88. In fact, in this episode, Lachlan heads up the British end and discovers to his horror that he’s on a list of people the Russians are planning to assassinate. But it’s not as stra......more

Goodreads review by Mike on May 02, 2024

My 5th book by Charles Cumming and they have all been great spy stories - albeit different characters. This one features Lachlan Kite and revolves around one of his early ventures as a spy in Russia in 1993 and then in 2020 in Dubai. The Judas list refers to the Moscow kill list of Russian citizens......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on September 21, 2022

4.5 ⭐ Charles Cumming's Judas 62 is the second book featuring Lachlan Kite and his outfit, Box 88. Box 88 is a joint uber-clandestine service between the U.S. and England doesn't officially exist. The Box 88 series has quickly become one of my favorite new series and Judas 62 is as good, if not bette......more

Goodreads review by Ray on January 07, 2023

British writer Charles Cumming is fast-becoming the new face of the modern spy thriller. His latest novel entitled JUDAS 62 is a perfect example of this claim and stellar follow-up to last years’ BOX 88. The creepy and prophetic prologue is set in the year 1979 and based in Sverdlovsk, Russia. We are......more