Red Traitor

This is Robert Harris storytelling territory and is told with equal panache and authenticity. There could be no higher praise. * DAILY MAIL *Tense, exciting and authentic. Every bit as good as Black Sun. – CHARLES CUMMING, author of Box 88His feel for the period is a great pleasure to read. Russet October. * THE TIMES *A superlative follow-up to Black Sun … With some particularly tense scenes set inside submarines that put Tom Clancy to shame in their claustrophobic realism, you have a humdinger of a Cold War thriller … Gripping and unmistakably authentic. – Maxim Jakubowski * CRIME TIME *This dynamic thriller skilfully weaves its story around one of the 20th-century’s most tense moments, the Cuban missile crisis. * BBC HISTORY *A standout thriller … the story races along and Matthews’ superb scene-setting … feels completely authentic. * FINANCIAL TIMES *

Superb … a real cold-war tale, much in the vein of a Tom Clancy, but with a degree of detail and conviction that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go … if you like your thrillers realistic, accurate and impossible to put down, buy a copy today. You won’t regret it.

Owen Matthews is the author of two highly praised works of non-fiction, Stalin’s Children and An Impeccable Spy, and two acclaimed historical thrillers, Black Sun and Red Traitor. As a war correspondent, he covered conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Ukraine, and for ten years he was Newsweek’s Moscow bureau chief. He divides his time between Rome and Moscow.