Jeremy Duns is the author of Dead Drop: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War’s Most Dangerous Operation  (titled Codename: Hero in the US), and the spy novels Free AgentSong Of Treason (originally titled Free Country), The Moscow Option and Spy Out The Land.

His journalism has been published in The Times, The Sunday TimesThe Sunday Telegraph, The GuardianTime Out and elsewhere. Free Agent was one of the Daily Telegraph’s ‘Thrillers of the year’ in 2009, and was praised by William Boyd as ‘a wholly engrossing and sophisticated spy novel set against a forgotten corner of 20th century history’. The Times called Song Of Treason ‘a masterly excursion back to the bad old days of the Cold War’, while The Guardian said it was ‘a treat for fans of traditional Len Deighton-style spy thrillers’. Oleg Gordievsky called Dead Drop an ‘excellent book’ that ‘contains lessons that are still valid in the 21st century’ and Francis Wheen called it an ‘irresistible real-life thriller’. 

To contact Jeremy, please email jeremyduns@yahoo.com 

For rights and related enquiries, please contact his agent:

Antony Topping,
Greene & Heaton,
T18, West Wing,
Somerset House, Strand,
London,
WC2R 1LA.

Tel: 020 87490315
Email: info@greeneheaton.co.uk
Website: www.greeneheaton.co.uk

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‘The immediacy of Duns’ writing grabs and suspends the reader in a beautifully realized heartbeat of recent history’ – Kirkus Reviews