The Inheritance

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Book Four of the Eleanor & Sophie Vasey series.

Every network has a weakness. His is that he cannot bear to be surprised.

Sophie Vasey has inherited her mother's chair — and her mother's enemies. The newest of them cannot be out-thought or out-run. He can only be surprised, once.

The buried network Eleanor Vasey spent her life fighting is gone. The idea beneath it did not die. Fifteen hundred miles east, a younger master has rebuilt it for a new century — not in ministries, but in the machinery of every ordinary life. He watches in real time. He moves in the half-second. Everything Eleanor taught her daughter was built for a war that ran at the speed of people, and this one does not.

So Sophie takes it somewhere his machine is blind: into the unrecorded past. To a woman the old house declared dead thirty years ago. To the one dying man who still holds the map.

The road ends at a stone house at the head of a valley, in three seconds that will cost her the best man she has left.

For readers of John le Carré, Mick Herron and Charles Cumming.