Secrets of the Moon
The full Agatha Witchley experience in one volume — ghosts, spy-craft and the uncomfortable truth.
Good to know: the complete Agatha Witchley novel. It first appeared as standalone novellas (beginning with In the Company of Ghosts) before being collected here as one full-length book.
About this book
Agatha Witchley is sixty-something, a former Cold War spy, and the only person who can save the world — if she can get the ghosts of Groucho Marx and Winston Churchill to stop bickering for five minutes. The full Agatha Witchley experience: state secrets, the uncanny, and one unforgettable investigator.
Agatha has spent the last year in a high-security psychiatric wing, suspected of terminal insanity — because she insists on holding conversations with the ghosts of the famous dead. But when reclusive cryptography billionaire Simon Werks is found dead in a locked office, the British government decides it doesn't need a doctor. It needs a specialist.
Enter Section Seven of the Circumlocution Office — the “Orifice”, where the government's most radioactive, unsolvable and downright weird problems go to die. With a crude ex-Hong Kong policeman, a glamorous “acquisitions” specialist and a legendary hacker hiding from extradition, Agatha is plunged into a conspiracy that runs from the tunnels beneath London's Monument to a Caribbean stealth-villa and the forbidden wastes of Antarctica.
What looks like a murder turns out to be the first move in a global power play by the Plato Club — an elite shadow-state of the world's one-percenters — and a rogue CIA unit. They are digging for a secret buried for a hundred thousand years, left behind by a lost civilisation that didn't just inhabit the Earth, but once walked the surface of the Moon.
The full-length Agatha Witchley experience, and the best place to meet her — espionage, cutting-edge technology and a darkly hilarious supernatural twist, with the stakes set at nothing less than the survival of the species.
- you like a detective unlike any other — sixty-something, paranoid and inconveniently brilliant;
- you enjoy a techno-thriller and the uncanny in the same book;
- you want sharp, witty dialogue and a darkly comic edge to high-stakes action.