Agent Running in the Field

Nat, a forty-seven-year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit hates Trump and hates his job at a soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Nat and his team down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.

Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.