On the second green of a Long Island golf-course there are three golf balls and a corpse with a bullet-hole in his forehead. The call goes out for Harry Fielding to come in from the cold. With a new suit and a new partner, Harry is back where he least wants to be: playing the deadly games of MI5. Always a triangular peg in a square hole, Harry has never felt easy with the protocol, the procedure and the need-to-know principles of the British secret service. And it doesn't help that his apprentice, Johnny Weeks, is a troublemaker. Going back to the work he hates but does so well, all Harry really wants is to rekindle his relationships with his ailing, amnesiac father and his ex-wife - who appears to be sleeping with his boss. Will this be his last chance: the fresh start that will restore moral equilibrium to a crooked man who wants to go straight?

Philip Davison was born in Dublin, where he still lives. He has a background in film editing and has written short stories and plays for stage and television, including The Invisible Mending Company, which was performed on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock stage. This is his sixth novel.

'Sharp. Funny. Hip. Learned. Surprising-If you haven't experienced Ireland's equivalent of Graham Greene with a dash of Le Carre and the readability of Len Deighton, then treat yourself to The Long Suit' Evening Herald