Jonas Merrick is a long-serving MI5 analyst with a wealth of knowledge at his fingertips, slogging away quietly at his desk and overlooked by his colleagues. When the spotlight unexpectedly falls on him because he thwarts a terrorist attack, things change. Suddenly his views are listened to and he’s a key man in the hunt for jihadi terrorists returning home. As Merrick explains, these are the enemy hiding in plain sight like a submerged crocodile waiting to kill. This is a rather old-fashioned story, in the sense that it’s just small clues and snippets of intelligence that move things forward,...
Jonas Merrick is a long-serving MI5 analyst with a wealth of knowledge at his fingertips, slogging away quietly at his desk and overlooked by his colleagues. When the spotlight unexpectedly falls on him because he thwarts a terrorist attack, things change. Suddenly his views are listened to and he’s a key man in the hunt for jihadi terrorists returning home. As Merrick explains, these are the enemy hiding in plain sight like a submerged crocodile waiting to kill. This is a rather old-fashioned story, in the sense that it’s just small clues and snippets of intelligence that move things forward, but the setting is bang up to date. I thought it was beautifully paced and surprisingly gripping, with quite a lot of gentle humour. Definitely worth searching out.
Review by: Cornish Eskimo
