David McCloskey for London Station

David McCloskey is a former CIA analyst who worked in field stations across the Middle East and briefed senior White House officials and Arab royalty.

His first novel, Damascus Station, was called 'one of the best spy thrillers in years' by The Times; his second, Moscow X, was a Sunday Times Thriller of the Year. His third, The Seventh Floor, was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was his fourth, The Persian. He is the co-host of the podcast The Rest is Classified.

David joins us for London Station, the electrifying new thriller featuring Artemis Procter.

What if the CIA and MI6 began spying on each other?

A new US Administration has taken office, installing a brash and unconventional CIA Director determined to disrupt the Agency and sceptical of its close relationship with their cousins across the Atlantic.

Case officers, including newly installed London Chief of Station, Artemis Procter, must now navigate a tense environment as old friends become adversaries and no one knows who to trust.

When agents run by both services begin dying, Procter and her team at London Station must decide whether loyalty to the Mission and their friends means disobeying the Agency they serve.

Immersing readers in the technological revolution upending intelligence tradecraft, David McCloskey's brilliant new thriller depicts the nuts-and-bolts mechanics of how CIA and MI6 collaborate and explores what happens when politics threaten to destroy the 'Special Relationship' between America and Britain.

'Quite literally, this is not just McCloskey's best book by far, it is the best spy novel I have ever read: brilliantly written and plotted' - Antony Beevor, military historian and Sunday Times #1 bestselling author of Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921