Location: London, Afghanistan

A Spy in the Blood

Author/Guide: Paul Warner

Why a Booktrail?

2026: Mark Wolfe was the greatest spy of his generation. Now he’s been put out to pasture.

ISBN: 978-1785129957
Genre: Spy story, Thriller

What you need to know before your trail

Gone are the days of dead-drops beneath railway station clocks in foreign lands that no longer exist – of dry-cleaning, double agents and triple crosses. Now Mark’s stuck behind a desk in Vauxhall Cross in charge of recruiting the next wave of spooks, his only excitement fending off advances from deep-pocketed private security companies.

Yet his discontent is just another secret to add to the pile. As far as his wife and children are concerned, Mark is a quiet, affable civil servant who has no idea how to use the TV remote.

So when he discovers his daughter, Jody, has an unhealthy obsession with joining MI6, Mark is caught off guard. The Service is keeping her recruitment a secret from him – but why?

Then Jody disappears during a mission. And with MI6 washing their hands of her, Mark is thrust back into a terrifying new world of modern espionage.

Locations

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Afghanistan
E: Kabul
F: Hindu Kush

Travel Guide

London

The story roots its espionage in the everyday geography of the UK capital focusing on MI6 and the area along the River Thames. The streets in and around Piccadilly make up the area where the characters live and work if not at the pub. They tend to have a few covert meetings here too.

Afghanistan

A bit different and more chaotic than London. Kabul’s back alleys represent a chaotic urban labyrinth of hidden safe houses where missions quickly turn rogue and dangerous. The Hindu Kush is the unforgiving remote and dangerous mountains represent survival, isolation as well as warfare.