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Cold Sunset
  • Published: 3 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241761090
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $60.00

Cold Sunset

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8 Sept 2026
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3 Oct 2026
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3 Sept 2026
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3 Sept 2026
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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.

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 . . .
  • Published: 3 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241761090
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $60.00
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About the author

William Boyd

William Boyd is the author of one work of non-fiction, three collections of short stories and thirteen novels, including the bestselling historical spy thriller Restless – winner of the Costa Novel of the Year – and Any Human Heart, in which the character of Ian Fleming features. Among his other awards are the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Jean Monnet. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2005, he was awarded the CBE. Born in Ghana in 1952, William Boyd spent much of his early life in West Africa. He now divides his time between the south-west of France and Chelsea, where he lives a stone’s throw from James Bond’s London address.
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Praise for Cold Sunset

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

Extravagantly enjoyable

THE TIMES

One of our most thrilling writers

DAILY EXPRESS

Boyd is always engaging, intelligent and deeply satisfying. I rate him one of our greatest living novelists

PETER JAMES

For page-turning glamour, you can bank on a William Boyd novel to hit the spot.

GUARDIAN