A Foreign Country

Mysterious and terrible events that occurred at different times and on different continents at first did not attract much attention. In the late 1990s in Tunisia, a young housemaid disappeared without a trace, leaving an admirer who had been in love with her in ignorance. Years later in Egyptian Sharm el-Sheikh, a married couple from France—who had come for vacation—were killed with incredible cruelty. Soon after that, in a dark street in Paris, a young French accountant was kidnapped. But when, in the south of France, Amelia Levin disappeared—an assistant who was soon to take on the role of the first female chief of MI-6—the British Secret Intelligence Service faced arguably one of the most serious crises in its history. Desperate not only to find Levin, but also to prevent the scandal from leaking into the press, Britain’s high-ranking intelligence officers turn to Thomas Kelly—one of their disgraced former officers. Following the trail that leads him first to France and then to Tunisia, Kelly uncovers a shocking secret conspiracy that could have irreversible consequences for Britain and its allies—and understands that only he is capable of preventing disaster…