A Reluctant Asset
- Publication
- August 1, 2026
About the Book
Someone inside British security services has been working for Tehran for years.
Tom Kessler is about to find out who, and whether he can trust anyone on his own team.
An IRGC Colonel arrives in London under diplomatic cover. Within hours, his family is taken. Tom gets to them first. The price of their return is everything the Colonel has. From that moment, one of the IRGC's most feared intelligence officers becomes the deepest asset MI6 has run inside Iranian intelligence in a generation.
But as he begins to talk, something surfaces that Tom's team was never meant to find. Evidence that the Iranians have their own source. Embedded, patient, and close.
With a major incident in Tehran approaching and the clock running down, Tom must decide how far to trust a man who had no choice but to turn.
Set against the real events of November 2011, A Reluctant Asset is a tautly constructed British intelligence thriller from ex-Surrey Drug Squad detective Peter J Charles grounded in real tradecraft and the kind of moral compromise that leaves no one clean.
