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Starting in the year 1990, he began working for ITN, producer of ITV News when he joined as an editorial trainee. After that, he became producer for ITV’s political editor Michael Brunson in 1992. Quite exceptional...Tom Bradby succeeds in creating real characters. Far too many novels take refuge in cliché and caricature - Bradby refuses to. The language, the tension, the fear - all are portrayed vividly and correctly...A taut, compelling story of love and torn loyalties' Trying to preserve what little progress has been made with her family, off Kate goes. Everything seems to be falling into place for her, pushing her in certain directions, a little too neatly. Is she being set up to reach a false conclusion? Is she being set up to take the fall as a Russian mole? Can she play the Russians into letting her husband go? Kate has a lot of masters, a lot of information, and she's playing several dangerous games at once, as she tries to close this chapter once and for all. An excellent thriller straight out of today’s headlines… a fast, riveting yarn.”– Sun, on Secret Service
The book is thrilling because of the way it focuses on the characters, especially the choices that Colette must make that will change the course of her life forever. In Bradby’s engrossing sequel to 2019’s Secret Service, MI6 agent Kate Henderson rides point on a career-jeopardizing investigation of Prime Minister James Ryan. The tantalizingly ambiguous ending will leave the reader wondering what’s in store for Kate. Bradby does a fine job balancing the professional with the personal.”— Publishers Weekly, on Double Agent There are resonant echoes of le Carré here–in the way the betrayals reach from marriage beds to the seats of governments–but there is also a distinctly contemporary feeling in the idea that truth, even when it’s discoverable, may no longer matter.”– Booklist (starred review), on Secret Service I have enjoyed this trilogy very much. It is tightly plotted with Kate Henderson continuing to be a strong lead. All three novels have been five-star reads for me. Kate Henderson is a fully envisioned character, driven, brave and loyal at the heart of Britain’s secret service.This is another great read from accomplished author Tom Bradby. Well written and well researched, the storyline was complex but gripping, with excellent use of smoke and mirrors, and I have to say, the concluding chapter left me breathless, with its non stop action - as for the mole - I guessed correctly, despite the red herrings, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. I would thoroughly recommend all 3 books. It is difficult to be objective when you have immersed yourself from start to finish but I’m not sure how well this would be as a stand alone. I think suffice to say - it wouldn’t be as enjoyable and you would have missed 2 excellent reads that go before - so start at the beginning and strap yourself in for the ride. On the downside, it could be argued that some of the scene-setting and descriptions were over-long, but it all added flavour and gave the reader an opportunity to draw breath. The ending was tense whilst not being over-dramatic and it was also totally logical and well planned. Many of the loose ends were tied up satisfactorily and “Triple Cross” is, therefore, a worthy conclusion to an interesting trilogy that is a worthwhile read. All I do know is that Bradby captures in Kate Henderson a psychological complexity based in raw honesty – and that’s an asset to any character, let alone a top MI6 spy character. We all have flaws, and we all want comfort. But sometimes old comfort isn’t really comforting at all. Bradby captures the tensions of this, and the importance of trust, in Triple Cross, and the novel is all the better for it. These are spy novels we traditionally love to read. Fast-paced, contemporary and bringing an immediate and constant threat of danger to the principle characters.
What a great read. Such a pleasure to read a strong female lead in this often male dominated genre. Not that she’s a female Jason Bourne in a figure hugging stab vest or a girlie Harry Palmer with a better choice of designer specs.
Triple Cross
Nothing good ever comes from a midnight phone call, especially from Downing Street. For washed-up spy Harry Tower, it is the worst news at the worst possible time. His son, Sean, has gone missing in troubled Iran after writing an exposé about government corruption. Secret Service" and "Double Agent", the previous installments in the Kate Henderson series, were great reads. They were fast-paced, cerebral at times, and were thrilling from start to end. But "Triple Cross", the latest installment, is underwhelming, to say the least, and doesn't resemble in any way the previous books.
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