Description

Matthew Dunn uses his experience as a former MI6 field officer to bring transfixing realism to Slingshot, his third Spycatcher novel featuring Will Cochrane—MI6’s, and now the CIA’s, most prized asset and deadliest weapon.
 
In Slingshot, Cochrane is ordered to recover a mysterious document stolen by a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SRV) traitor working for a former high-ranking East German Stasi officer. The officer, years before, had instigated a secret pact between Russian and U.S. generals. The agreement stipulated that should it be broken, an assassin would immediately be set loose after an unknown target.
 
The SRV has sent their own version of Cochrane, a cold-blooded, brilliant operative, to retrieve the document, pitting spycatcher against spycatcher.
 
Slingshot, with its cat-and-mouse espionage, brutal action, and complex protagonist, is a must-read for fans of Robert Ludlum and Lee Child.

About the author(s)

As an MI6 field officer, Matthew Dunn recruited and ran agents, coordinated and participated in special operations, and acted in deep-cover roles throughout the world. He operated in environments where, if captured, he would have been executed. Dunn was trained in all aspects of intelligence collection, deep- cover deployments, small arms, explosives, military unarmed combat, surveillance, and infiltration.

Medals are never awarded to modern MI6 officers, but Dunn was the recipient of a rare personal commendation from the secretary of state for work he did on one mission, which was deemed so significant that it directly influenced the success of a major international incident.

During his time in MI6, Matthew conducted approximately seventy missions. All of them were successful. He currently lives in England, where he is at work on his next novel.

Reviews

“[Dunn] has created a plot with plenty of action and lots of twists and turns . . . nonstop action and relentless danger.” - Associated Press on Spycatcher

Spycatcher is a nail-biting, edge of your seat page-turner. And Matthew Dunn is an explosive new talent.” - Simon Kernick, #1 bestselling author of Relentless (UK)

“Dunn’s exuberant, bullet-drenched prose, with its descriptions of intelligence tradecraft and modern anti-terrorism campaigns, bristles with authenticity. . . . True to form, Cochrane is riven with demons. A graduate of Cambridge University, he is feared by friend and foe alike, [and] burdened with more angst and less panache than James Bond. . . .Save for works by Alan Furst, good thrillers have been thin on the ground of late. Mr. Dunn has redressed this balance with an altogether gripping book.” - The Economist

Slingshot is anything but a paint-by-number spy thriller. Matthew Dunn’s third Will Cochrane novel is a complex work with a twisting and turning plot that moves ever forward, loaded with the double—and triple—crosses that readers who follow the author have come to expect. . . . should be added to the must-read lists of all fans of espionage thrillers.” - Bookreporter.com

“Excellent. . . . I know of no other spy thriller that so successfully blends the fascinating nuances of the business of espionage and intelligence work with full-throttle suspense storytelling.” - Jeffery Deaver, author of Carte Blanche

“Move over, James Bond, Alex Hawke [and] Mitch Rapp . . . Matthew Dunn has come in from the cold with big guns, a killer attitude and realism that other writers only dream about.” - Clarion-Ledger

“Dunn is a gifted storyteller.” - Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Spycatcher

“Dunn delivers insights into a world most of us will never experience—except between the covers of a book, or maybe someday in a movie as good as the best of the Bond and Bourne sagas.” - Oakland Tribune on Sentinel

“Dunn joins the fraternity of the old school writers, Le Carre, Fleming, Deighton, by entering the class that includes Dan Fesperman, Alan Furst and Charles Cumming. He’s a welcome addition.” - Mystery One

“Dunn, a former M16 officer, fashions a Nietzschean hero who looks poised to give Lee Child’s Jack Reacher a run for his readers . . . . Cochrane is a powerful, efficient killing machine, but his menace is leavened by some warm and appealing traits . . . . This is [a] twisty, cleverly crafted work.” - Kirkus Reviews on SPYCATCHER

Spycatcher is a terrific thriller with a superb new hero in superspy, Will Cochrane. Written with confidence by a man with the credentials to back him up, Spycatcher oozes class. Bond and Bourne can take a back seat: Spartan is now on the case.” - Matt Hilton

“A real spy proves he is a real writer-and a truly deft and inventive one. Spycatcher is a stunning debut.” - Ted Bell, New York Times bestselling author of Hawke, Assassin, and Pirate

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