THE WILL FLEMYNG SERIES by James Naughtie

THE MADNESS OF JULY (#1)

 

From Radio 4’s James Naughtie, a sophisticated thriller about loyalty, survival and family rivalry deep in the Cold War, drawing on decades of experience as a political insider in Westminster and Washington.

 

It is a sweltering July in the mid-1970s, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature is rising with each passing hour. A mysterious death has exposed secret passions in government, bringing on a political crisis that will draw him back into a familiar world of danger and deceit.

 

For Flemyng has a past. He was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines and now he’s compelled to go back. In the course of one long weekend he must question all his loyalties: to his friends, his enemies, and to his own two brothers.

 

Only then can he expose the truth in London and Washington. When he has walked through the fire.

 

 

PARIS SPRING (#2)

 

Paris, April 1968.
The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng – secret servant at the British embassy – the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and he now faces the spy’s oldest fear: exposure.

 

Freddy Craven is the hero and mentor Flemyng would trust with his life, but when he is tempted into a dark, Cold War labyrinth, he chooses the dangerous path and plays his game alone.

 

Then a bizarre murder reveals a web of secrets, and his loyalty to family and friends is tested as never before.

 

As the streets of Paris become a smoke-filled battleground, Flemyng, like his friends and enemies, discovers that where secrets are at stake, lives are too.

THE WILL FLEMYNG SERIES by James Naughtie
On behalf of
Felicity Bryan Associates
Published in the UK by
Head of Zeus
February 2014; April 2016