Cold War Moscow is a place smouldering with secrets. Gabriel Dax has been tasked with delivering a mysterious Blanco drawing to celebrated defector Kit Caldwell. But Caldwell is convinced the KGB suspects him of treachery, and he wants out now.

When Gabriel is ordered by his enigmatic handler Faith Green to help, he is pulled into a web of shifting loyalties and dangerous escape plans. As tensions rise and trust fractures, he is forced to confront the fine line between devotion and deception…

Cold Sunset, the third novel starring accidental spy Gabriel Dax, takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal, in a tautly woven mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd.

William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius’ -- MICK HERRON
Boyd is one of my favourite authors – he never disappoints -- KATE ATKINSON
Boyd is always engaging, intelligent and deeply satisfying. I rate him one of our greatest living novelists -- PETER JAMES
Boyd is at the top of his game -- MONTY DON
Simply the best realistic storyteller of his generation -- SEBASTIAN FAULKS
Boyd's signature investigation of human connections is always compelling -- S J BENNETT
A master of the spy thriller -- BRIAM MCGILOWAY
Extravagantly enjoyable' * THE TIMES *
One of our most thrilling writers * DAILY EXPRESS *
Tremendous * THE SCOTSMAN *

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.