The Traitor

After a numbers analyst for MI6 is found horribly murdered in his apartment, Emma Makepeace—a spy in a secret government agency so secret that it doesn’t even have a name—is one of the agents assigned to investigate. The victim is the son of a lord, and Emma’s boss Ripley is under a lot of pressure to solve the case. Emma soon realizes that the dead man was working on a closed case involving chemical weapons, wealthy Russians, and a possible double agent in British intelligence service. In order to uncover the traitor and stop the further sale of chemical weapons, Emma goes undercover on a yacht belonging to a Russian oligarch. Suspected right from her first moments on board, Emma unfortunately gives the oligarch and his henchman more ammunition to distrust her with her clumsy spying. Glass’s follow-up to series starter Alias Emma is a generic, predictable spy thriller. Readers will easily guess who the traitor is and grow frustrated with Emma for not being able to follow the clear clues to their identity.