Ballistic

<b>THE NEW LUKE CARLTON THRILLER.</b><br /><br /><b>MI6 operative Luke Carlton returns in his most exciting and unnervingly up-to-the-minute mission yet . . . Get ready for the new edge-of-your-seat spy thriller from the bestselling author.</b><br /><br />In the dying light of an Arctic afternoon a monstrous black shape slips beneath the waters of Murmansk bay. Murmansk in the Arctic Circle is where Russia's fleet of nuclear-powered submarines is based - and the <i>Novorossiya</i> is one of their navy's most advanced - and dangerous - vessels . . .<br /><br />Acting on information received from a high-ranking mole deep inside Russia's FSB, Britain's security services are convinced that the submarine is about to deploy a terrifying, game-changing device. As Europe goes into a state of high alert, MI6 operative Luke Carlton is sent into the hot zone that is the Finnish-Russian border. His mission to secure the safe extraction of this valuable MI6 asset and the intel he has in his possession - because it seems the West could be staring Armageddon in the face.<br /><br />It's then that things start to go devastatingly wrong . . .<br /><br /><b>Breathlessly exciting, brilliantly authentic and unnervingly prescient, <i>Ballistic</i> is the new Luke Carlton thriller from the <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author and journalist who has his finger on the pulse of 21st century geo-politics and knows where the dangerous flashpoints are likely to be . . .</b><br /><br />© Frank Gardner 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026