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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Key Intelligence Provider, believes his years as a realtor runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the developing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to dominate The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The just bright light over the group is youthful Florence, that has her attention on Russia Section and a Ukrainian about Agent Operating in the Field oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.

Nat is not only a spy, he’s a separate badminton participant. His regular Monday evening opponent is usually half his age group: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his work at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of most unlikely people, who’ll take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is definitely a chilling family portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, today darkly humorous, informed to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age.

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