Black Force, the 9th book in the Old Spy thriller series, is a blistering page turner involving the murder of a Russian oligarch and the revenge of a retired GRU officer. It takes the reader through a maze of international hacking, ransomware attacks, a secret and sinister mercenary organization, the war in Ukraine and the expansion of Russian political and military interests in Africa. Once again, a former CIA cyberspy with encyclopedic knowledge of 50s, 60s and 70s rock – M.C. Trudeau – leads her new, young, London-based MI6 team in unraveling the plot. They include hackers, a dronester and a video expert and are joined by the Old Spy, MacKenzie Roberts. The storyline is as taught as fastmoving as the day’s news.