The Spy Across the Water

<p><b>From one of our most treasured BBC broadcasters, <i>The Spy Across the Water</i> is the third instalment in James Naughtie's brilliant spy series, about three brothers whose lives are entwined with the intelligence service.</b></p><p><b><i>We live with our history, but it can kill us.</i></b></p><p>Will Flemyng, originally trained as a spy, is now British ambassador to Washington. Meanwhile, his older brother Mungo is recuperating from a heart attack in their beloved Scottish-highland family home, and Abel, the youngest of the three, has died mysteriously in America.</p><p>Abel's unexplained death sets in motion an unstoppable chain of events, beginning with an unexpected glimpse of a face at his funeral. Soon Will finds himself on a dangerous journey into his clandestine past, from conflict in Ireland to the long shadows of the Cold War.</p><p>Will possesses a silky veneer, but he often doesn't know who to trust, nor who trusts him. Now he finds himself alone once again as duty forces him to risk everything...</p><p><b>Why has the past come back to haunt him now?</b></p>