Box 88
An organisation that doesn’t exist.
A spy that can’t be caught.
1989: The fall of the Berlin Wall is imminent and the Cold War will soon be over. But for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency known only to an inner circle of MI6 and CIA operatives, the espionage game is heating up.
Lachlan Kite, recruited straight from an elite boarding school, is sent to France – the frontline of a new secret war. Kite is tasked with gathering intelligence on a mysterious Iranian businessman implicated in the tragic Lockerbie bombing. But what he uncovers is even more deadly…
2020: MI5 hear rumours of BOX 88’s existence and go after Kite – only for Iranian intelligence to get to him first. Taken captive and subjected to torture, Kite is presented with a simple choice: reveal the truth about what happened in France thirty years earlier – or watch his family die.
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Charles Cumming
Charles Cumming is The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of 12 novels, including A Spy by Nature, Typhoon, The Trinity Six, the Thomas Kell trilogy and the BOX 88 series. He is also the screenwriter of the Gerard Butler action movie ‘Plane’. His new novel, KENNEDY 35, finds BOX 88 officer Lachlan Kite on the trail of a Rwandan war criminal in 1990s Senegal.
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Box 88
Box 88 consists of four books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Reviews and Comments
The story revolves around Lachlan (Lockie) Kite, a poor kid from Scotland who somehow gets accepted at an expensive and prestigious boarding school, Alford. He is recruited into Box 88, a covert US/UK espionage group while in school. The book alternates between Lockie in school and his current middle aged version which starts at the funeral of his best friend from Alford. I found this technique very effective in holding my interest. I also liked the way the story weaved in real life events like the downing of the plane in Lockerbie Scotland and fatwa against Salomon Rushdie in Iran. The character development is outstanding. The author clearly gets across how Lockie grows from a naive boy in school to a skilled spy. I highly recommend this book. Lots of suspense and it keeps you hanging for the next novel in the series.