The Glimmer Girl is first of the BARBELL series of novels, resetting the programme and putting the spook into spy-fiction…
Day of the Jackal meets The Wicker Man…
Events a century apart converge in this espionage faery tale…
We go from the birth of the British Secret Service to see its latest recruit; a young woman with a most singular heritage, thrown into a race against time to identify a cryptic threat linked to a seemingly benign global cult.
France, 1914:
In the earliest days of WW1, Mansfield Smith Cumming, Chief of the Secret Service Bureau endures a fateful meeting on a stormy night, resulting in a diabolical bargain with a mysterious stranger, the outcome of which will echo long into the future…
Libya, 1976:
Young SAS Captain, St John Bradley, witnesses a paranormal event in the midst of a deniable covert operation. He emerges as the miraculous but shattered lone survivor, doubting his sanity with a bleak future filed under ‘unexplained’…
London, 1977:
C, Maurice Oldfield, recovers an arcane coded journal penned by his long-gone predecessor, Commander Smith-Cumming, detailing the fantastical revelations behind a world shaping event in the early 1920s. He recruits and dispatches the restored St John Bradley to find out the truth behind Operation BARBELL..
London, Near future:
Siobhan Uhuru-Behan, a carpenter aged 23, from the London’s Cally estate is exploring new horizons and answers an SIS pop-up ad.
She enters the world of International Espionage and is code-named Glimmer. Along with Bradley and crack analyst UT4, she has eight days to identify and confront a techno-viral threat…
One with an origin that could tear her life apart.
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