A Duty of Care

<p><b>''Compelling . . . almost Dickensian'' <i>Times</i></b><br><br><b>''The best thriller writer in the world'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>*****</b><br><br><b>Jonas Merrick</b> - a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 - has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days before inevitable retirement.<br><br>In a Russian gulag, an MI6 agent has developed an unlikely passion for a prisoner and has come up with an ingenious plan to free her. The key: a ruthless Albanian gang laundering the dirty money of the Russian elite. <br>Merrick, the only agent with the experience to help, is brought back once again to intercept the Albanian courier until an exchange is organised by the Russians.<br><br>But when it transpires that the courier is the heir of the criminal gang''s leader, the danger mounts, and Merrick once again finds himself in a situation spiralling towards a bloody confrontation.<br><br><b>Frighteningly topical and intensely plotted, Jonas Merrick - one of the great figures of modern spy fiction - returns</b></p>