hostility

The new standalone thriller from the author of the Shepherd's Spider series. Sally Page is a "football fan" in MI5, a rookie secret agent who maintains "Legends": false identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day is spent maintaining the flats and houses where the Legends allegedly live, shopping online, using credit, loyalty, and travel cards, and appearing on social media under their names—anything to suggest to hostile surveillance that the Legends are living, breathing individuals. One day, she steps out for coffee from the safe house from which she and her fellow football fans operate. When she returns, she finds them all dead, and she barely escapes with her life. She's on the run: but she doesn't know who's on the run. Worse still, her MI5 bosses seem powerless to help her. To survive, she'll have to use all the lies and fake identities she's so carefully created while discovering the truth...