THESUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLERTHE TIMESBOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025A rare combination of experience and talent Mick Herron’His best yet … Superb, addictively suspenseful, its politics and tradecraft coolly accurate, scary, intricate and complex … The newmaestro of espionage thrillers’Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Seventh Flooris atruly creative, riveting page turner that will cement McCloskeys reputation as the best contemporary spy novelist’ General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA’This enthralling read cements McCloskey’s place in the first division of spy writers’Financial TimesTHE THIRD NOVEL FROM FORMER CIA OFFICER, THE REST IS CLASSIFIED PODCAST CO-HOST AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ***THE TIMESTHRILLER OF THE YEAR***DAMASCUS STATION(‘One of the best spy thrillers in years’THE TIMES) AND ***SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR*** MOSCOW XFIFTH NOVELLONDON STATIONAVAILABLE NOW TO PRE-ORDERALL YOUR LIFE YOU’RE CIA.THEN YOU’RE NOT.A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat and run out of the service. Traded back in a spy swap, Sam appears at Procters central Florida doorstep months later with an explosive secret: there is a Russian mole hidden deep within the upper reaches of CIA.As Procter and Sam investigate, they arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procters closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt soon requires Procter to dredge up her own checkered past in service of CIA, placing her and Sam into the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscows mole in Langley at all costs, even if it means wreaking bloody havoc across the United States.Bouncing between the corridors of Langley and the Kremlin, the thrilling new novel by David McCloskey explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to love a place that does not love you back.