The Violin and Candlestick
Former CIA analyst Michaela ‘Mike’ Kingdom is forced into the field once more for her most challenging assignment yet…
Habib Murchison is a hugely successful but enigmatic businessman. A Canadian-born convert to Islam, his wealth grew from the building boom across the Gulf states. But Murchison also has a secret identity. He’s one of the West’s most important intelligence assets in the troubled region.
In London, outgoing ‘Five Eyes’ boss Leonard De Vries is under pressure. Recalled to Langley to face questions from his CIA bosses, he senses he’ll need off-the-books help and calls again on former colleague Michaela ‘Mike’ Kingdom to sort things out, along with ex-CIA operative, Chris Crippen.
Mike and Chris are faced with a nightmare: Murchison is dead, his two grieving sons are being threatened, and then Leonard goes missing. Never trained as a field operative, Mike faces a race to find out what Murchison was hiding, who is prepared to kill to keep it secret, and if there is anyone that she can truly trust?
David Jarvis
David Jarvis went to art college in the 1970s before setting up an international planning practice, which he ran successfully for forty years. This took him around the world from Saudi Arabia to France and from Croatia to Trinidad.
His canvases just got bigger and bigger.
He has now retired to Wiltshire to write and drink wine, not necessarily in that order.