12th January 2012 / Coldest City / Pre-order
THE COLDEST CITY, a new spy thriller graphic novel by me and artist Sam Hart, is now available for pre-order, to be published in May.
It’s set in West Berlin during the last days of the Cold War, and follows in the footsteps of classic espionage fiction like John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Ian Mackintosh’s The Sandbaggers, and Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer novels.
This is a book I’ve wanted to write — and the kind of book I’ve wanted to write — for years, ever since my stint on QUEEN & COUNTRY: DECLASSIFIED gave me the espionage bug (writing, that is — I was already a spy fiction reader, it just hadn’t occurred to me to write any before. Duh).
Here’s the back cover blurb…
As Communism collapses and the Berlin Wall crumbles, an undercover MI6 spy is killed while carrying priceless information — a list containing the name of every spy in Berlin.
But no list is found on his body.
MI6 sends veteran MI6 officer Lorraine Broughton to recover the list. But she walks into a powderkeg of social unrest, counter-espionage, defections gone bad, and secret assassinations…
THE COLDEST CITY is a brand new spy thriller from author Antony Johnston (Wasteland, Queen & Country: Declassified, Daredevil) and artist Sam Hart (Judge Dredd, Excalibur: The Legend of King Arthur) that revitalizes classic espionage fiction and revels in the paranoia and mistrust boiling over at the epicenter of the Cold War.
…which tells you pretty much all you need to know. But if you want more, and to read some sample scenes, there’s also an official website with more information, order codes, loads of artwork, and a preview of the book.
THE COLDEST CITY is the first in a planned series of connected books; I’m writing the second, DEAD OF WINTER, at the moment, and I already have plans for at least one more after that.
If that sounds good to you, please pre-order a copy of THE COLDEST CITY today.
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