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I recently finished reading Agency Woman by John A A Logan. I found this novel fascinating.
It felt like a study rather than a story. The action and the narrative took second place to an inside to outside examination of a burnt-out agent dragged unwillingly back into the game.
I loved it, but I think you need to know and approve of what you're getting into beforehand to avoid disappointment. The action only warms up a little towards the end of the novel and you spend most of the time inhabiting the mind of this burn-out.
In the end, I felt that the author had given me a clear reason never to romanticise espionage. I give it a strong recommendation (with the provisos mentioned) and will take the opportunity to again give a shout out for his earlier novel The Survival of Thomas Ford which I also thoroughly enjoyed.
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