My Name Is Nobody

Compelling, intense and sharply authentic

James Swallow, bestselling author of Nomad

Elegant and assured, My Name is Nobody weaves a complex web of moles, double agents and tradecraft, brought right up to date by a fresh young voice . . . compelling spy fiction

Michael Ridpath, bestselling author of Amnesia

Authentic, mysterious, fraught with deception, betrayal, and uncertain allegiances, it captures perfectly the foggy world of spies, populated by conspiracy and turncoats, both friends and enemies, an evocative descent into the Wilderness of Mirrors

Jason Matthews, author of Red Sparrow

I dare you to find a first novel as self-assured, impeccably researched and beautifully rendered . . . Richardson paints a portrait of espionage that calls to mind early le Carré

Gregg Hurwitz, No. 1 bestselling author of Orphan X

Matthew Richardson's debut is a bang-up-to-date thriller told with old-school panache. A great read

Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Dead Lions

A pleasingly convoluted spy saga . . . which combines immaculate Cold War tradecraft with modern tech savvy as our maverick hero comes up against a Le Carre-esque establishment while trying to find a mole and head off a terrorist atrocity

Sunday Times Crime Club

Truly authentic and frighteningly so . . . a remarkable thriller

Shot Magazine

A supremely confident debut . . . This story is told with panache and a taste for spy craft that mark it as outstanding

Daily Mail

Told with panache and a taste for the intricacies of craft that mark it as outstanding ... Solomon Vine reminds me not so much of le Carre's Smiley, but rather Len Deighton's spy in his marvellous debut The Ipcress File. If he keeps going, Vine could be that good ... a supremely confident debut

Daily Mail

All debut spy novelists are dubbed the new John le Carre but Richardson has made a good fist of living up to the accolade at his first attempt . . . [a] knowledgeable thriller

SPORT Magazine

Proof that the genre is flourishing anew in the 21st century . . . [he] distinguishes the more ambitious offerings in the spy genre, but his plotting has an old-school, Swiss-clock precision that keeps the reader pleasurably engaged.

The Guardian

A splendid tale of espionage starring an old-fashioned MI6 hero . . . exciting spy literature

The Times

Now comes Matthew Richardson, hailed as the next Charles Cumming. My Name is Nobody actually falls somewhere between Robert Ludlum and Le Carre

Sunday Mail