A Shadow Intelligence

What happens when a private intelligence agency becomes more powerful than those run by the State? When its clients seek to shape history at any price?Headhunted from MI6 to join a private intelligence agency that works for global business interests, Elliott Kane finds himself at the heart of a conspiracy in Kazakhstan when one of his local agents disappears without trace, leaving a murdered woman in his wake. The closer Kane looks, the odder things become: the agent's disappearance connects to the apparent deaths of a group of British hikers who vanished two weeks earlier when they became lost in a snowstorm. As Kane is drawn deeper - into a realm of deception and very real impending horror - he moves from merely infiltrating events to steering them. Kane learned the dark arts at MI6: how to plant stories, manipulate protest movements, set up ratlines for the movement of arms, and establish relationships with the groups ready to use them. But when a papertrail involving vast, offshore funds leads him to a string of villages evacuated close to the Russian border, his firm brings his home. Suspicious of his own employers, hunted by his former colleagues in MI6, and with the lives of those who love him at stake, Kane needs to establish who exactly he's been working for - and why they now need him dead.