Senate Square, 6pm

<p><b>Introducing Poland’s John le Carré: former spy and bestselling author Vincent V. Severski.</b></p><p>Martin, a former British spy, enjoys a quiet retirement in the Scandinavian wilderness, far from Vauxhall Cross. But his peace is shattered when an active MI6 officer arrives with a macabre photograph and a question. A severed hand bearing a cryptic Cyrillic tattoo has been found in the shipyards of Britain’s new nuclear submarines. What does it mean?</p><p>The question drags Martin back thirty years to Helsinki, when, as the Soviet Union finally began to crumble, he was sent on a desperate mission to find out the truth behind an alarming provocation, deep beneath the Atlantic’s waves…</p><p>He was thrown into a shadowy duel between KGB spymasters, MI6 handlers and Finnish counterintelligence, as an old world was giving way to the new, and the global order hung in the balance.</p><p>But are the ghosts of a long-ago mission being disturbed? Or is he just an old spook jumping at shadows?</p><p><b>Sweeping from snow-bound Scandinavian wilderness to tense Cold War safehouses, this is an authentic, cerebral and compelling espionage epic. </b></p>