crimson Falcon

Six stolen guidance cores. Ten days. One ghost with a crimson aeroplane.Thames Barn — gentleman, government troubleshooter, always immaculate in a Savile Row suit — is handed an impossible assignment. Vesper Kestrel, the legendary broker-pilot known as the Crimson Falcon, has lifted six Stormlance hypersonic guidance cores and is selling them one by one to private buyers across the globe. In ten days, six arsenals go live, and the map gets redrawn.At Barn's side is Trippany Sloane, co-director of the operation and the sharpest signals analyst in the service — running his board from the field, not a desk. Together they chase Kestrel's couriers from a black-tie marina gala in Monaco to the souks of Marrakech, a Dubai penthouse, a Singapore yacht chase, and a neon-soaked Tokyo karaoke tower. Each handoff demands a new disguise, a new plan, and a new gadget — and Barn never once loses his nerve or his manners.But in Rio the sixth core turns out to be a hollow shell, and Trippany's diagnostics reveal a chilling truth: every core is inert without the Falcon's Eye, the arming module Kestrel kept for himself. The mission changes in a single night. Now they must infiltrate Kestrel's island fortress, steal the Eye from under his lieutenant's guns, and face the Falcon himself where he has never been beaten — the sky, in a dawn dogfight over the Indian Ocean.The Crimson Falcon is the third Thames Barn novel: a globe-spanning race against time, full of style, wit, and heart.