Jeremy Duns's fast-paced debut,Free Agent, is a gripping thriller that introduces a morally complex and unforgettable agent named Paul Darkto the canon of espionage literature.In June 1945,Dark,an agent for MI6,joins his father in a top-secret mission to hunt down and unofficially execute Nazi war criminals.Almost twenty-five years later,a KGB officer turns up in Nigeria during the Biafran civil war wanting to defect.He claims to have details of a British double agent recruited by the Russians in Germany in 1945.

Now on the run from both MI6 and the KGB,Paul Dark heads toward Africa to find,confront and,if necessary,kill the only woman ha has ever loved,whom he has thought dead for the past twenty-four years.Free Agent is the spectacular story of one man's fight for survival and search for the truth about his father's death and his lover's betrayal.

Jeremy Duns is a journalist who grew up mainly in Africa and Asia. His work has been published in MOJO, The Independent, Time Out and Japanese Playboy.