Cold Sunset by William Boyd — the third stylish literary thriller starring travel writer and reluctant spy Gabriel Dax, from the internationally bestselling author of Any Human Heart and Restless.
It is 1964. Cold War Moscow is smoldering with secrets.
Gabriel Dax has been sent to deliver a mysterious Blanco drawing to Kit Caldwell, the celebrated “defector” now living as a Hero of the Soviet Union. Caldwell is convinced the KGB suspects him of treachery. He wants out — and he wants Gabriel to smuggle him over the border into Finland.
When Gabriel’s enigmatic MI6 handler, Faith Green, orders him to help, he is pulled into a web of shifting loyalties and dangerous escape plans. Trust fractures. Motives darken. Every step could be fatal.
As the mission tightens around him, Gabriel must confront the fine line between devotion and deception — and decide which he will choose.
Cold Sunset continues the Sunday Times bestselling Gabriel Dax series that began with Gabriel’s Moon and The Predicament. It can be read on its own, but series readers will find the reluctant spy more entangled than ever in a world where loyalty blurs and any misstep could be the last.
Elegant, tense, and wickedly entertaining — William Boyd at the height of his spy-novel craf
