Codename Wolf

'The secret services take themselves very seriously, and are often depicted in a very straight manner in film and books. I wanted to take a look at the nonsense behind the secretive machines of espionage,' comments Gil Hogg, when talking about his latest novel, Codename Wolf.

Gil, a prolific writer of crime fiction adds, 'Think of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza inside the secret services – that is what you have with my characters, Roger Conway, the fantastist, and his prosaic assistant, Herbert Yarham, in Codename Wolf. The result is a tongue-in-cheek thriller.'

In Gil's novel, lead character Roger is a daring liar who has invented a new identity for himself and bluffed his way into M16. He carries out audacious mission for the Disciples, a secret cell of Oxbridge and Ivy League academics who are the masterminds behind the security service. Rogers adventures in Cuba, during a new Cuban Missile Crisis, save the US from imminent rocket attacks, but frustrate the Disciple's political plot against the president. Aided by his assistant, Hebert Yarham, Roger emerges as the top Anglo-US spy, a brilliant deceiver in a world of deceit.