Publication date: 31/10/20…Halloween…

The 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 an altered view of the super-natural…

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. He recruits and dispatches 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 the threat…

A threat that with an origin that could tear her life apart.

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