Cold Water

Dave Hutchinson returns to Fractured Europe with a new novel that doesn't feature Rudi and instead picks up on a very minor character from Europe In Winter. The flavour is the same though - it's insanely complicated, and will make your head hurt as you try to keep the various timelines, sides, motives, and schemes straight. But it doesn't really matter if you can, because confusing or not it's so very readable and the journey is terrific fun even if you have no idea what the destination is. These books really are some of the best espionage fiction being written today, and deserve the same broadsheet kudos as a Mick Herron.