He went looking for a missing young man. He found a secret capable of destabilizing the Middle East.

When Martha Raine asks her former lover, BOX 88 chief Lachlan Kite, to find her missing son Max, Kite discovers that Max and his girlfriend Yasmine are not simply missing—they are running for their lives. Two rival intelligence agencies are hunting the couple, with orders to kill them before they can reveal what Yasmine knows.

Kite and Martha race across Greece and the Mediterranean to reach them first, while a separate threat closes in on Kite’s own wife and daughter. What began as a missing-person case has become an international intelligence operation with consequences reaching far beyond the two young fugitives.

A masterclass in modern espionage, Icarus 17 delivers authentic tradecraft, shifting alliances, and the quiet tension of intelligence operations where every decision carries consequences.
Selected for the Unit 3877 vault for its realism, sophisticated plotting, and compelling portrait of the shadow world where information is the ultimate weapon.