DCI Harriet Keel Books

They know when you wake. They know what you buy. They know when you’re frightened, lonely, in debt or arguing with your wife.And you gave them almost everything they needed.Daniel Reeve is an ordinary London banker with an ordinary life. What he doesn’t know is that, eight thousand kilometres away, two Chinese intelligence officers know him better than almost anyone alive.Mei Lin and Jun Wei aren’t hackers. They’re watchers. Patient, meticulous and frighteningly good at turning the digital traces of everyday life — watches, phones, apps, cars, smart devices and purchased data — into an intimate portrait of a human being.Daniel is their target.Until something goes wrong.When DCI Harriet Keel begins investigating how a seemingly innocent man became entangled in a sophisticated financial operation, she discovers something far bigger than espionage. Someone has taken the machinery of state surveillance and turned it into a marketplace — using stolen intimacy to manipulate ordinary people, steal millions and destroy anyone who gets too close.With brilliant Scottish cryptanalyst Hamish MacNair at her side, Harriet follows the trail north.To Dundee.To a secret buried beneath the city.And to two Chinese agents who are beginning to realise they may no longer know which side they’re on.Smart, tense and darkly funny, TWO SHADOWS is the first Harriet Keel thriller from Chris Hughes — a British espionage series about technology, surveillance, friendship and the uncomfortable truth that the most dangerous person watching you may be someone you invited into your life.You don’t have to be important to be a target.You only have to be useful.