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Yesterday's Spy
Yesterday's Spy
Apr 22, 2025 2:23 AM

Author:Tom Bradby

Yesterday's Spy

'Atmospheric, informative and flawlessly plotted' The Sunday Times

'Riveting...with style and energy, evocative scene-setting and strong characterisation' Financial Times

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A man in search of his son.

An agent on the run from his past.

A country on the verge of revolution...

Nothing good ever comes from a midnight phone call, especially from Downing Street. For washed-up spy Harry Tower, it is the worst news at the worst possible time. His son, Sean, has gone missing in troubled Iran after writing an exposé about government corruption.

Their relationship has never recovered since Harry's wife's suicide, for which Sean holds his father responsible. And Harry, with his career on the verge of disintegration, needs to find him and put things right.

When Harry arrives in Tehran, he finds a city on the cusp of revolution. Foreign powers are jockeying for influence, money and, most importantly, oil. The CIA are conspiring to undermine the government with an impending coup, and there are dark mutterings about opium smuggling. But the reasons for Sean's disappearance may be even more sinister than Harry first suspected.

Before long, he is on the run - not only from a faceless enemy, but from his own past. Which will catch up with him first?

Yesterday's Spyis Tom Bradby at his very best, delivering a cunning espionage novel rich in intrigue and history that will keep you guessing until the final pages.

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Readers are loving Yesterday's Spy

'His telling of fiction is as good as his telling of the news on TV!' *****

'A very enjoyable book and a real page turner' *****

'Writing that seems not just plausible but frighteningly real' *****

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Praise for Tom Bradby

'A gripping thriller' Sunday Times

'Enthralling and fast-moving' Daily Mail

'Teems with twists...imaginative and unexpected' The Times

'Cracking' Financial Times

'An all-too-plausible premise' Observer

Reviews

Atmospheric, informative and flawlessly plotted

—— The Sunday Times

Bradby makes the complicated history and politics of the region admirably clear

—— Literary Review

A cracking thriller! Totally recommended

—— Simon Mayo

A superb thriller...exhilarating

—— Shots Magazine, Book of the Month

Riveting...with style and energy, evocative scene-setting and strong characterisation

—— Financial Times

'A fascinating and powerful thriller of the highest order'

—— Irish Independent

A super smart and slick revenge thriller that is brilliantly plotted, with an incredible kick-ass female protagonist. I loved this

—— Sarah Bonner , author of Her Perfect Twin

A Kiss After Dying is a fast, energetic revenge thriller with a roaring engine and twists for miles. Buckle up for some old-school smiting, where the sins of the father are thoroughly, ruthlessly punished.

—— Steph Cha , author of Your House Will Pay

An isolated house in the snowy woods, a cat-and-mouse chase, a story packed with secrets where nobody is what they seem ... I loved the flashbacks expertly woven into the tale to reveal the dark secrets of a relationship

—— ALLIE REYNOLDS

Brutal, tense, and utterly compelling, Laure Van Rensburg is an electrifying new voice

—— LOUISE O'NEILL

Not an exaggeration to say this left me breathless - a relentlessly tense revenge thriller that's as beautifully written as it is savage and twisty

—— KATIE LOWE

Misery meets Malcolm and Marie... An intoxicating, head-spinning and heavy-hitting revenge thriller

—— HOLLY SEDDON

Nobody But Us is unapologetically brutal, clever and raw: a psychological thriller that stabs a razor-sharp knife into the bruising issue of consent (and - for good measure - gives it a twist) while pursuing a page-turning game of cat-and-mouse in the most evocative of settings

—— PHILIPPA EAST

I raced through Nobody But Us in a couple of days. It's a tense cat and mouse thriller and I enjoyed being toyed with...

—— LAURA PEARSON

A propulsive thriller that is atmospheric and haunting, with so many twists that it left me breathless. At the core of the story is a rage-fuelled message, a cry of fury that demands to be heard. A triumph of a novel

—— JESSE Q. SUTANTO

Devoured this in a day. It's the reading equivalent of a 'hall of mirrors' where nothing is as it appears. Once you start reading, you can't stop

—— JULIE OWEN MOYLAN

Superbly written, so sharp, descript and cunning. Deliciously dark and utterly addictive.

—— LOUISE BEECH

Beautifully savage and cunningly sharp, Nobody But Us is destined to become your next obsession. The almost unbearable tension will trap you with Ellie and Steven in their twisted relationship where nothing is as it seems. Trust no one in this electrifying debut, and prepare to be completely consumed

—— LAURIE ELIZABETH FLYNN

Inspired by real stories and events shared during the MeToo movement, the cat-and-mouse power struggle between the pair will force you to decide whose version of history you believe

—— Woman

I raced through this pacy zeitgeist thriller...for those who love their books dark, twisty and a tiny bit deranged (in a good way!)'

—— ROSIE ANDREWS

Nobody But Us is such an addictive thriller filled with secrets and mind games and never knowing who to trust. But it's also chilling and beautifully written with a powerful message at its heart. This is one book I won't be able to stop thinking about for a long time

—— Claire Douglas, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girls Who Disappeared'

Full of corkscrew twists and subtle turns, this...novel confirms Lodge as a gifted writer

—— Daily Mail

Clever, pacy, well-written and utterly gripping

—— C.L. Taylor

Taut, tense and deliciously dark, C.J. Tudor's post-apocalyptic thrill ride is unmissable

—— TIM WEAVER
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