MI6 previews "In Secret Service" a new fictional thriller by Mitch Silver that centres around a newly discovered manuscript by James Bond creator Ian Fleming...

In Secret Service - Preview
30th May 2007

In Secret Service - Mitch Silver
In this debut of a uniquely talented novelist, Ian Fleming's real world of spies, love, passion, and danger is brought to life when a young woman inherits Fleming's long-hidden account of spying during World War II and must finish it to find out why people are trying to kill her.

In 1964, James Bond's creator sealed a package containing a manuscript he thought no one would read until fifty years after his death. Ian Fleming was an officer in Britain's Naval Intelligence during World War II, and he had his own adventures to recount. His family ties and his career had taken him to the upper echelons of British and American society and espionage, a world where passionate affairs, exotic locations, and polite cocktail chatter were interlaced with danger, betrayal, and deceit. He'd replicated that world in his famous novels, but this manuscript contained a real spy story that would explode history when its secrets were revealed. He'd chosen the reader, and he'd have to trust she would serve the truth.

In 2005, Amy Greenberg -- a young American academic with a glittering future -- is summoned to Ireland to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe deposit box, in which she finds only one thing: a manuscript by Ian Fleming. The pages detail Fleming's involvement in Allied spycraft and contain information so confidential, so potentially explosive, that Amy soon discovers that people on both sides of the Atlantic are willing to kill to maintain its secrecy. As she journeys back home with her precious cargo, Amy finds herself in a race against time -- she must unlock the manuscript's shocking and fascinating secrets and outwit the unknown assailants who would do anything to bury the truth and protect a traitor's name.

 


Above: Cover artwork for the hardback edition

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Peopled with characters including Winston Churchill, Princess Diana, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Anthony Blunt, and FDR and illustrated with authenticating documents, In Secret Service is a historical mystery inside a contemporary thriller. The debut of an exciting new writer, this book combines impeccable research with thrilling action, in a brand-new take on espionage suspense.
"In Secret Service" Official Book Website

About The Author
Mitch Silver was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. He attended Yale and Harvard Law School ("I lasted three days. I know everything through Wednesday, but after that..."). Mitch has been an advertising writer for several of the big New York agencies ("I named Purina O.N.E. dog food. Really."), and spent a year living in Paris with his wife, Ellen Highsmith Silver, while he was European Creative Director on the Colgate-Palmolive account.

Mitch and Ellen live in Rye, New York, and have two children: Sloane is a nurse in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Perry is an actor and the drummer for The Fabulous Entourage band in New York. Mitch won the American Song Festival Lyric Grand Prize for "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed." His blood type is O positive. In Secret Service is his first novel.

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Title: In Secret Service
Author: Mitch Silver
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Released: 22nd May 2007
R.R.P: £12.60 (UK) / $25.00 (USA)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
ISBN: 1416537945

 
"A monarchy in trouble, murderous treason, and a World War II betrayal that resonates into the present. The real thrill of In Secret Service is watching this contemporary and historical tale recounted through the fun house mirror. Enjoy the ride."
-- Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The Book of Fate

"First-time novelist Silver spins an unlikely if entertaining tale. Silver delights in making the sometimes improbable historical links that form the basis of his plot, and his high spirits are so contagious that readers will happily go along for the ride."
-- Publishers Weekly