Another good read in the series and looking forward to the next installment. It's as gripping as I have come to expect from the series and a good spy thriller.

Another wonderfully written and thrilling book from Charles Cumming. I was engrossed from the first page and it was one of those books where you want to know the ending but you don't want it to end.
I would thoroughly recommend.

I think Cummings is great .. characters tend toward dour end of spectrum but there's always a seriousness underscoring the author's sense of importance of the events .. stakes are high for world peace. Maybe there are long explanatory but their purpose is educative, and while I tend to have to stomp through, I appreciate the intent. Really good value!

It is described as a gripping thriller and it is! It is another of the intelligence outfit called Box 88 thrillers and again we meet Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend Martha. Lachlan and Martha had in their past been involved with a situation in Senegal where they only just got out with their lives. Now a friend of Lachlans draws them back into the past and this time Lachlan needs to destroy a criminal network and save <artha from assassination. Great fun read.

This is the second Box 88 book I have read. A great spy novel passing from the past to present. Brilliant from start to finish. Looking forward to the nect installment

In this excellent series, we again meet Lachlan Kite as he works to prevent the existence of Box 88 - and the identity of some of its agents - being exposed via a podcast.

The first part of the story is a flashback to the mid-1990s, which sees Lockie on a mission to arrest a “genocidaire” following the Rwandan genocide. What starts as a routine mission, however, quickly dissolves into something much darker, and safe to say the mission does not go to plan. Now, years later, misinformation about the situation is leaked to a top journalist who plans to report on it via his popular podcast, putting Lockie and his former girlfriend Martha in real danger. Meanwhile, there are other agents who will go to any lengths to stop the story getting out, whom Lockie must contend with as they threaten much of what he holds dear.

This is such a great series, and this instalment is every bit as good as the previous two titles. The action is exciting while intelligently crafted, and the characters are wonderful but flawed and show a real progression between the two timelines.

I would highly recommend this fantastic author, although would recommend reading this title as part of the series rather than as a standalone novel.

My thanks to the author, NetGalley, and the publisher for the arc to review.

Another great read from this author. The book commences with the background about the genocide in Rwanda between the Hutu and Tutsi population. Lockie Kite is the main character in this story as previous books. He is spending time with his family in Sweden and thinks he is lying low. He gets a notification from an old school friend which starts a series of events which takes him away from home. A reporter is proposing to write an article about the genocide and, of course, the powers that be are worried what he may report. The reporter has a story about the “Butcher of Kigali” who is trying to leave Senegal for a neutral country where he will live a very charmed life and will not be taken to task about the terrible things that happened to the Tutsi people. If this happens it will expose that several governments buried the situation. Lockie and his ex girlfriend, Martha, become involved in trying to bring Bagaza (Butcher of Kigali) to justice before he can escape to a country with no extradition. The story continues through the operation at a good space and leaves the reader wanting more. A good read and I hope there will be more books with these characters

The third book in this series features a secret espionage network. It's action-filled with believable characters and a well-described setting. While exploring violent events, it's an engaging read with a conspiracy ethos and an impactful conclusion. I like the contemporary relevance and the story's complexities.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher.

Proper and thoughtful spy thriller here from an author who really know what he is doing.
This is the third in the Box 88 series, about a global organisation able to act outside the bureaucracy of the intelligence services, indeed many operatives who think they are working for domestic intelligence services are actually working for Box 88.
This is a story rooted in 1995 where the horrors of the genocide in Rwanda are still fresh. A British team, including new recruit Lachlan kite botch the extraction of a Rwandan war criminal from Senegal.
Moving forward to the present day and Kite now heads up Box 88 and the past catches up with a reporter about to name names and violent people who want the past to stay buried.
It’s complex and intelligent stuff. The section set in Senegal has the real old school spy feel and the current stuff is that of modern technology and thinking, it’s a great comparison.
Charles Cumming is writing this stuff better than any other living author.

Lochlan Kite is back in the game! Exciting thriller which pulls you back to an ealier, mission which pulled Lockie's life apart. Now in his 50s, a sighting of a Rwandan Genocidaire's partner in Senegal starts the hunt. We're taken back to the original mission of Box 88 in the '90s, where the French secret service is there to add to the confusion.

Forward to present day - murders are to be avenged and this genocidaire's partner is not going to get away with a life of luxury after her past crimes. Lockie also has to damage-limit the imminent relelase of a podcast detailing the original mission to the public, without jeopardising the current one. He also needs to protect friends, including his old love Martha, who could be put in danger.

I had no idea of the French involvement in Rwanda in the 1990s. An interesting note at the beginning states that the French Government has recently put a further 25 year delay on the opening up of files. It's also a timely reminder of a genocide not so far back in history, and where our current Home Secretary deems 'safe' for refugees to be sent to, to make a new life...

Absolutely compelling reading - which ends on such a cliffhanger I can't wait for the next one!

This was a great spy story. Lots of twists and turns and very cleverley constructed story. Need to concentrate to keep track of everyone. A tidy ending.

Another in the exciting Box88 series doesn’t let one down. Moving smoothly from 1995 Rwandan genocide to the present back and forth building the history and present day hunt for one of the murderers. From steamy heat in Senegal to Sweden, New York and London the action never flags all building to a satisfactory conclusion until the final sentence leaves things open for another episode in this stylish spy series.

I don’t usually read spy novels but I absolutely love the Box 88 series by Charles Cumming. He manages to make espionage sound so exciting and interesting while I’m sure it won’t be all the time but that doesn’t matter in these books.
The story jumps back and forth in time from the present to 1995 when spy Lockie and his girlfriend at the time, Martha, are sent to Senegal posing as backpackers to track down the person responsible for genocide in Rwanda.
Things don’t go according to plan and Lockie as usual finds himself in danger.
Fast forward to the present and old school friend and Box 88 asset Eric Appiah gets in touch with Lockie regarding information that could not only expose Lockie but also pose a threat to the future of Box 88 itself.
The book contains lots of the usual twists and turns, intrigue and suspense we’ve come to expect from Charles Cumming. I only hope we don’t have to wait too long for the next instalment.

This is the third novel in Charles Cumming's Box 88 series. I've been a fan of the author's since Typhoon (2008), and each new novel has been superb and often better than the previous one. Kennedy 35 is no exception, and delivers everything one could hope from an espionage thriller (and, especially, a Box 88 novel). I really enjoyed this.

Lachlan Kite, boss of the transatlantic intelligence agency, Box 88, is spending time with his estranged wife and infant daughter, trying to repair and strengthen their relationship. When a friend from the past arrives in London looking for Kite, he realizes that a job started in 1995 isn't finished. As Kite revisits his memories and the events of the operation in Rwanda, he's confronted with a number of regrets and not a few ghosts.

Cumming has brought everything that makes his novels so good to Kennedy 35. He weaves the espionage plot nicely into real global events of the time, while simultaneously balancing plenty of character-development. The returning characters remain engaging and continue to grow, and the new supporting cast is well-drawn, three-dimensional, and interesting. I quickly became invested in their fates, and their place within Kite's operation and life.

The author has found an excellent "formula" for this series, and the dual timelines -- in all three of the books -- have worked very well. Comparing Kite as a newly-minted Box 88 operative to his temperament and style now that he's older and in charge makes for an engaging story, as does comparing the times he's writing about -- the tools available to the present-day Box 88 are far superior to those available in the 1990s, and Cumming effectively offers a modern and "historical" spy thriller in one.

If you've enjoyed any of Cumming's novels in the past, then I'm pretty sure you'll find a lot to enjoy in Kennedy 35. This is especially true for fans of the Box 88 novels. Kennedy 35 is another great espionage novel, from one of the finest writers in the (sub-)genre writing today. I very eagerly await the next book!

Charles Cummings has a fantastic way of bringing espionage thrillers to life.
If you love Ian Fleming then you will adore this series.
After his last successful mission Lockie Kite is trying hard to get his life and marriage back on track but when he gets a call from an old school friend that he is needed back in London he has little choice but to go.
As with all the BOX 88 series it does travel back in time,this one to 1995 wher Lockie and his girlfriend Martha head to Africa to try to track down a wanted war criminal but everything is not as easy as they first thought.
The book like the rest of the series goes back and forth through timelines but the way it is written doesn't confuse the reader in anyway.
A brilliant espionage thriller series.

The Box 88 series is definitely one of my favourite spy series!

Kennedy 35 is the third book in the series and again a brilliant read.
Lachlan Kite better known as Lockie is an intelligence officer working for Box 88 a top-secret Anglo-American spy agency. He was recruited straight out of school and has been up against some really bad guys.
This time it is not the Russians or the Iranians that Kite is up against. He is up against Augustine Bagaza, who was one of the principal Architects of the genocide in Rwanda, as well as his sidekick and girlfriend Grace Mavinga also known as Lady Macbeth.
We again have dual timelines with Kite telling us the story of what happened in Dakar, Senegal in 1995 when they went over to try and catch Bagaza to bring him back and to stand trial and then the present where a close friend of his is murdered and a journalist is trying to find out what happened in 1995.

You don't have to read the series to enjoy this book but they are so good I recommend you start with Box 88.
Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins UK for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion

I found it quite a struggle to get into this thriller which I suspect is due more to my ignorance of African politics than to the author’s writing or the plot. Throughout, I felt that this fast paced, well written novel was as much trying to teach me something I should already have known as it was trying to entertain me. I read novels to be entertained, and as a reading experience this book (especially the final paragraph!) was less satisfying than other superb books by this author that I have read.

It's a while since I read a spy story and this one was most enjoyable. The author has an easy style that keeps the reader engaged, taking us to different time periods and through many different cities worldwide. The plot is engrossing and I now need to find the first two books in this series.

Read this one, you wont be disappointed.

This is the first of the stories in the BOX 88 series that I have read and I am now very keen to read the others. It is a cleverly plotted, relentlessly paced espionage thriller with a superbly drawn cast of characters headed by the spy Lachlan “Lockie” Kite and his colleagues in a clandestine US/UK intelligence agency as well as the wider international espionage community. Featuring a dual timeline of the aftermath of the 1994 Rwanda genocide in and its still-felt reverberations in 2023, the story unfolds in thrilling fashion. The scene setting in Senegal, London and other key locations is exceptional and adds considerably to the story telling. Overall, a complex but totally plausible tale of international intrigue and covert action. Highly recommended.

Cummings delivers another fast-paced and tightly plotted espionage thriller that sees ‘Lockie’ Kite playing a key role in foiling the plans of a range of malign actors. Fans of this series, which is based around a shadowy US/UK intelligence and action outfit called BOX88, will know what to expect: excellent scene setting, with enough local colour capturing the sights, sounds and smells of the various exotic - and occasionally more sordid - locations; well drawn characters; and a flowing narrative that steadily but deliberately unpacks a satisfyingly complex plot. Strongly recommended.