Killer Traitor Spy
by Tim Ayliffe
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Pub Date Jul 05 2023 | Archive Date Apr 13 2023
Simon & Schuster (Australia) | Simon & Schuster Australia
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Description
Winner, 2024 Danger Awards, People's choice award
Shortlisted, 2024 Ned Kelly Awards, Best Crime Fiction
‘Ayliffe is a master of the genre.’ Sulari Gentill
STEALING SECRETS IS A DEADLY GAME
Someone wants Russian millionaire Dmitry Lebedev dead. After years flying under the radar in Sydney, he’s just had a narrow escape when a sex worker is poisoned in his hotel room. In desperation he contacts his former CIA case officer, Ronnie Johnson, offering to expose a traitor inside the Australian government in return for protection.
John Bailey has spent decades risking his life to break news stories. Along the way he’s made some interesting friends, including Ronnie — who saved his life in Iraq — and Scarlett Merriman, whose night with Lebedev left her in a coma. And now they both need Bailey’s help.
While Bailey investigates what happened to Scarlett, Ronnie Johnson is calling in an old debt. Because the same people going after Lebedev have framed Ronnie for murder.
From Canberra to Moscow to Beijing, Killer Traitor Spy uncovers the new lines of espionage in the twenty-first century. It proclaims Ayliffe as a master of the genre.
‘A carefully crafted, propulsive thriller that sails uncomfortably close to the truth.’ Michael Brissenden
‘Torn from the headlines and relentlessly paced.’ Matthew Spencer
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781761107313 |
| PRICE | A$32.99 (AUD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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Featured Reviews
Jarrod M, Reviewer
When a sex worker takes a sip of vodka intended for her rich client it sets off a hunt for the perpetrator that crosses Sydney and Canberra with journalist John Bailey at the centre of it all.
This. Oh my lord. This was a page turner! I could not put it down.
As a journalist Bailey is dealing with PTSD and addiction from previous assignments and with his buddy from the CIA playing a key part in this mystery where the bodies keep piling up during the hunt for a Russian double agent who has infiltrated Australia’s defence department.
From liberal politicians having illicit affairs and being blackmailed for it. To secret weapons being used outside an office in Canberra, I could never guess what was going to happen next.
The way that this was all wrapped up in a bow of journalistic investigation and the story Bailey finds himself loving through, Killer Traitor Spy has everything that a good crime thriller needs. And the ending. Oh boy I did not see that coming!
Christine S, Reviewer
Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an advanced review copy of this book.
I’m not real good at following espionage and coverup’s, but in this case I followed the story very well. Says a lot about the writing style of the Author when you can follow the story and all the different characters.
Investigator John Bailey is pursuing the story of a poisoning of a Lady friend of his. This takes him way out of his usual investigation’s when he works along side a former cia agent and friend of his, who does thing’s a lot different than John.
What if John crosses the line? Is he ever going to come to turns with it.
Read on for a very good book.
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