The plot thickens as the book mirrors real-world events
From the twisted mind of Matthew Vaughn comes Argylle, a razor-witted, reality-bending, globe-encircling spy thriller.
Bryce Dallas Howard is Elly Conway, the reclusive author of a series of best-selling espionage novels, whose idea of bliss is a night at home with her computer and her cat, Alfie.
But when the plots of Elly’s fictional books – which centre on secret agent Argylle and his mission to unravel a global spy syndicate – begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organisation, known as the Division, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past.
Accompanied by Aidan, a cat-allergic spy played by Oscar winner Sam Rockwell, Elly (carrying Alfie in her backpack) races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Elly’s fictional world and her real one begins to blur.
In London, the duo searches for a “Masterkey” that would help expose the spy organisation that Elly had also referenced in her novels.
Suspecting Aidan wants to kill her too, Elly calls her parents for help. As they arrive, Aidan reveals that they are operatives working for the spy organisation sent to capture her, forcing him and Elly to fend them off before fleeing.
Escaping to France, Aidan and former CIA deputy director Alfred Solomon, played by Samuel L. Jackson, reveal that Argylle is not entirely fictional: Elly is in fact Rachel Kylle (an acronym for Argylle), who was captured and brainwashed by the spy organisation five years ago; she put her suppressed memories into the novels.
With the latest Argylle novel, Elly was about to reveal the whereabouts of the Masterkey before her cover was blown.