The Midnight Swimmer (William Catesby, Bk. 3)

A brilliant Cuban Missile Crisis spy thriller by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré'

October, 1962. If the Cuban gamble goes wrong and war breaks out, Britain will cease to exist.

Whitehall dispatches a secret envoy to defuse the confrontation. Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with an anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it.

Though he is loathed by the Americans for his left-wing sympathies, Catesby is sent to Havana and Washington to make clandestine contacts. London has authorised Catesby to offer Moscow a secret deal to break the deadlock.

But before it can be sealed, he meets the Midnight Swimmer, who has a chilling message for Washington.