EVE BLACK RETURNS

Her enemies want her dead. Her own side has negotiated the terms.

Eve Black has humiliated Directorate S once too often. To stop a wider campaign of retaliation, Crown Intelligence strikes a bargain: five operatives, sent one at a time, each allowed a single attempt to kill her.

Without a pistol, papers, money or official support, Eve must survive long enough to understand why the first attack does not fit. The vendetta is hiding something larger, and uncovering it forces her to turn to Freddie Vale, the man who knew her before the Crown gave her a colour for a name, and the one man she cannot be certain will not betray her.

Five assassins are coming.

Eve intends to make them regret trying.

For fans of Ian Fleming and Len Deighton, and readers of classic espionage fiction. Set in a fully fictional Cold War world, Vendetta combines old-school tradecraft, deception and intrigue in a story that leaves Eve Black unarmed, with her training and instincts her only weapons.