Damascus Station's David McCloskey for The Seventh Floor

'A rare combination of experience and talent' ~ Mick Herron

This January we are joined by the one-and-only David McCloskey. A former CIA Officer, The Rest is Classified Podcast co-host and the bestselling author of The Times Thriller of the Year Damascus Station & Sunday Times Book of the Year Moscow X, David joins us for his new spy thriller, The Seventh Floor.

ALL YOUR LIFE YOU'RE CIA.

THEN YOU'RE NOT.

A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procter's central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper reaches of CIA.

As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procter's closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt soon requires Procter to dredge up her own checkered past in service of CIA, placing her and Sam into the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow's mole in Langley at all costs, even if it means wreaking bloody havoc across the United States.

Bouncing between the corridors of Langley and the Kremlin, the thrilling new novel by David McCloskey explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to love a place that does not love you back.

'His best yet. It's superb, addictively suspenseful, its politics and tradecraft coolly accurate, scary, intricate and complex - he has become the new maestro of espionage thrillers' ~ Simon Sebag Montefiore