Kennedy 35

Name: Kennedy 35
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Cumming
ISBN: 9781696613187

Author: Charles Cumming

Series: Box 88 #3

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 11/21/2023

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage

Synopsis

Veteran agent Lachlan Kite—"a spy for the 21st century" (Daily Mail)—reckons with the fallout from a mission in Senegal carried out early in his career.

1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, twenty-four-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices which will have devastating consequences not only for his career at top-secret intelligence agency BOX 88, but also for his relationship with Martha.

2023: Eric Appiah, an old friend from Kite's days at school and an off-the-record BOX 88 asset, makes contact with explosive information about what happened all those years ago in West Africa. When tragedy strikes, Kite must use all the resources at his disposal to protect Martha from a criminal network with links to international terror.

Charles Cumming once again straddles two timelines to create a high-tension thriller in this latest Lachlan Kite novel.

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 09, 2023

4+ Box 88#3 - Lachlan (Lockie) Kite Box 88 is a deeply covert U.K./USA espionage group that operates well below the radar. In 1995, 24-year-old Lockie and his girlfriend Martha Raine are sent to Senegal ostensibly on a backpacking holiday. They are there to track a genocidaire of the Rwandan slaughter......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 19, 2024

The book starts by providing a brief background history lesson on the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, in which half a million Tutsi lives were taken by Hutu militias – all this in a period of around three months. I can remember horrifying nightly news reports of this slaughter at the time, reports that st......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on November 27, 2023

When a podcast threatens to expose details of a failed clandestine mission to bring a Rwandan war criminal to justice--and possibly disclose the existence of BOX 88-- Lachlan Kite must confront the past to protect his loved ones in the future. I am a big fan of this series and Kennedy 35 is a superb......more

Goodreads review by Hanlie on October 23, 2023

The Box 88 series is definitely one of my favourite spy series! Kennedy 35 is the third book in the series and again a brilliant read. Lachlan Kite better known as Lockie is an intelligence officer working for Box 88 a top-secret Anglo-American spy agency. He was recruited straight out of school and......more

Goodreads review by Carole on November 14, 2023

Details of botched past operation connected to the Rwandan genocide could topple governments and unmask a secret group of spies. In 2023 the head of the clandestine Anglo-American group known as BOX 88, Lachlan Kite, is on leave in Sweden with his wife and new daughter. He is working to repair their......more