"[An] impressive debut.... This is an eye-opening account that could lead to renewed public interest in this tragedy." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

"Ravi Somaiya's brilliant unwrapping of the mystery surrounding Hammarskjold's death will convert the reader into an avid investigator the moment they pick up this book! A compelling read - filled with revelations and written in a style that's clean and fast-paced, THE GOLDEN THREAD also raises key questions before governments who still act suspiciously: Why? What are you hiding exactly? At its heart, the book lays bare not only Hammarskjold's undoubted heroism and the sad realities of the Congo in the 1960s (many features of which regrettably persist to this day), but also the stark dilemmas that beset the UN, when principle falls neatly into the cross-hairs of power." (Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN human rights chief (2014-2018) and UN peacekeeper (1994-1996))

"THE GOLDEN THREAD is as exciting as the best spy novels, with the enormous advantage of being completely true. Ravi Somaiya masterfully teases out the tangled strands of a Cold War mystery in a place where nothing and no one are quite what they seem. The result is a gripping book by a gifted writer and a dogged investigator." (Mitchell Zuckoff, number one New York Times best-selling author of 13 Hours and Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11)