David Brierley was born in 1936 in Durban, South Africa. He has also lived in Canada, England, France and Greece. Travel is in his bones. After taking a degree at Oxford, he worked as a teacher at a French lycée and then in advertising in London, which is when the first of 13 novels were published. He lives in England with his wife Jill in a small town with a name that always raises a smile: Chipping Sodbury.
The first novel in the acclaimed Cody series of espionage thrillers. A retired female spy is strong-armed into participating in a deadly undercover operation to prevent an assassination.