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Gabriel Dax

The Gabriel Dax novels follow a British travel writer whose work takes him into the political fault lines of the early 1960s and gradually turns him into an unwilling intelligence asset. Beginning with the Congo Crisis and widening into covert operations across Europe and the Americas, the sequence combines Cold War espionage with Gabriel’s investigation of the secrets surrounding his own past.

Reading order

Books in this series (2 books)

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1. Gabriel’s Moon

William Boyd

4.6(30,001)

In 1960 travel writer Gabriel Dax arrives in the newly independent Congo and unexpectedly secures an interview with Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba tells him that foreign powers want him dead and names men he believes are involved. After Gabriel returns to London, the interview attracts…

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2. The Predicament

William Boyd

4.7(11,892)

Gabriel Dax has returned to travel writing after his first encounters with British intelligence, but his connection to MI6 officer Faith Green proves difficult to escape. An assignment sends him to Guatemala during a volatile presidential election, where organised crime, political violence and American intelligence interests…