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BESTSELLING AUTHOR
COLUMNIST & TEACHER

Simon Mayo
SIMON MAYO
ADAM BROOKES
LEE CHILD
MICK HERRON
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A TREACHERY OF SPIES
Tracking down her murderer leads police inspector Inès Picaut back to 1940s France where the men and women of the Resistance were engaged in a desperate fight for survival against the Nazi invaders.
A story of murder, betrayal and a passion that will shape a life.
And a death.
LATEST NEWS – A Treachery of spies is one of the times top ten thrillers of the decade: link here
A NEW PROJECT FOR A NEW WORLD
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My new project for 2020 is a podcast, blog and membership program.
We didn’t grow up believing that we’d be part of the generation that gave itself the capacity to wipe out life on our planet. But here we are – accidental gods – poised on the brink of climate chaos and mass extinction.
And yet…we are also poised on the brink of vast potential transformation.
She’s a nurse. She’s also a killer – and she’s good at it. But what happens when her team is betrayed and she’s the only one to get clear?

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Best Crime Fiction for 2018 - Financial Times
A Treachery of Spies is on the FT’s list of best crime fiction for 2018. It’s a great list including Jane Harper, Ian Rankin & C J Sansom.
INTRODUCING SOPHIE DESTIVELLE: ASSASSIN, SPY & REBEL WOMAN


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A NEW PROJECT FOR A NEW WORLD
My new project for 2020 is a podcast, blog and membership program.
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LATEST ARTICLES
Best Crime Fiction 2018
A Treachery of Spies is on the Financial Times’ list of best Crime Fiction of 2018. It’s a great list and includes Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and C J Sansom.
I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A SPY
INTRODUCING SOPHIE DESTIVELLE: ASSASSIN, SPY & REBEL WOMAN
7 TRAITS YOU'D NEED TO BE A SUCCESSFUL SOE AGENT
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NEW YORK TIMES
JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
PUBLISHING NEWS
“The new Mary Renault”
LUCID DREAMING: ANCIENT SKILL OR MODERN FAD?
THE CELTS, WOMEN & SEX
BREAKING THE LEGACY OF ROME
THE OLD GODS &THE NEW
BOUDICA
NEW YORK TIMES
THE ADVERTISER, AUSTRALIA
“All historical novels should be this good”
PUBLISHING NEWS
“The new Mary Renault”
JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE
“It is so well written that its world of prescient dreamers and fearless warriors lingers in the imagination long after the final page”
INTO THE FIRE
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING…
For six centuries, we’ve been told that Joan of Arc was a pious – and necessarily clueless – peasant virgin used as a standard bearer while the men got on with the messy act of winning the war against the English.
The truth is so much more interesting, but in the past and in the present day, there are people who will kill to keep the myth alive.
In this fast-paced, gritty thriller, past and present weave inexorably towards an incendiary – and unexpected – conclusion. Read more.
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