1989. London. Julia Dylan runs a successful security consultancy. When an eccentric academic disappears trying to find Spanish gold she is hired to find him. Her husband Thomas, stuck in MI6 writing reports nobody reads, is suddenly sent to Turkey to find a consignment of hijacked Russian missiles. To their surprise both Julia and Thomas find their paths leading to Madeira. That can't be a coincidence. Somebody is pulling their strings. But who? And why? Does the answer lie with a distinguished local family of wine merchants? Or with a former MI6 officer now working for the Americans in Panama? Or perhaps even with a retired Russian spy living peacefully on the island? That peace cannot last. The cold war may be ending but its consequences are still explosive. AUTHOR: Brian Landers started writing newspaper columns to help pay his university bar bills and since then has written articles for various journals, newspapers and websites. He was once interviewed for a job at the government spy agency GCHQ in Cheltenham but decided that travelling the world would be more exciting. His first full time role was helping a former Director General of Defence Intelligence and a motley collection of ex-spooks set up a political intelligence unit in the City of London. Out of this sprang the character of Thomas Dylan, a novice who over the years progresses through the labyrinthine world of British Intelligence. Later, as a director of Waterstone's and then of Penguin his love of writing was rekindled. His first book, Empires Apart was published in the UK, US and India and was largely written while commuting to work. He has an MBA from London Business School and in 2018 he was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
