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James Wolff

Biography

James Wolff

James Wolff grew up in Beirut and has lived in Damascus, Cairo and Istanbul. He worked as a British intelligence officer for over 10 years. His first novel, BESIDE THE SYRIAN SEA (2018), was a Times Thriller of the Month and an Evening Standard Book of the Year. Upon publication of Wolff's second novel, HOW TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY (2021), the Spectator described him as "a major talent." The New York Times called his third novel, THE MAN IN THE CORDUROY SUIT (2023), evidence of "a memorable voice in the genre."

James Wolff

Books by James Wolff

Spies and Other Gods
by James Wolff - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

The Head of British Intelligence is having a bad day. Only six months off retirement and Sir William Rentoul is wondering if he'll make it that far, what with the sudden descent of a brain fog dense enough to turn every day into a series of small humiliations. To make matters worse, when parliamentary researcher Aphra McQueen is brought in to investigate an internal complaint, she discovers something horrifying: the murder of nine Iranian dissidents. The elusive assassin, nicknamed CASPIAN, kills across borders, forcing intelligence services throughout Europe into an alliance. Their only lead? An unsuspecting dentist in the UK. Aphra McQueen seems to know more about the operation than she is letting on. What will she uncover? What is she really up to? And can she survive the unexpected events that will bounce her from London to Birmingham to Paris to Lausanne?