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  • Published: 20 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241814086
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $49.99

The British Agent




A globe-trotting, torn from the headlines thriller from a CWA Steel Dagger winning author

A veteran American spymaster weaving an elaborate web.
A politician who makes a high-stakes promise he can’t keep.
A clutch of sophisticated air defence missiles stolen in Ukraine.
A terrorist cell with plans to commit an outrage in the US capital.
And, at the centre of it all, a British agent, operating alone and undercover, on a desperate, globe-trotting mission to prevent catastrophe. She cannot fail . . .

  • Published: 20 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241814086
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Simon Conway

Simon Conway is a former British Army officer and international aid worker who has cleared landmines and unexploded bombs in the aftermath of war in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. As Co-Chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition he successfully campaigned for an international ban on cluster bombs. He currently works for the The HALO Trust, starting new projects in conflict-affected countries. He is the author of seven novels including the 2010 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner A Loyal Spy. His next novel, American Carnage, will be published by Penguin Michael Joseph in 2026.