My Name Is Nobody

Critics Review

• Now comes Matthew Richardson, hailed as the next Charles Cumming. My Name is Nobody actually falls somewhere between Robert Ludlum and Le Carre

  Sunday Mail

• A splendid tale of espionage starring an old-fashioned MI6 hero . . . exciting spy literature

  The Times

• All debut spy novelists are dubbed the new John le Carre but Richardson has made a good fist of living up to the accolade at his first attempt . . . [a] knowledgeable thriller

  SPORT Magazine

• Proof that the genre is flourishing anew in the 21st century . . . [he] distinguishes the more ambitious offerings in the spy genre, but his plotting has an old-school, Swiss-clock precision that keeps the reader pleasurably engaged.

  The Guardian

• I dare you to find a first novel as self-assured, impeccably researched and beautifully rendered . . . Richardson paints a portrait of espionage that calls to mind early le Carré

  No. 1 bestselling author of Orphan X

• Compelling, intense and sharply authentic

  bestselling author of Nomad

• A pleasingly convoluted spy saga . . . which combines immaculate Cold War tradecraft with modern tech savvy as our maverick hero comes up against a Le Carre-esque establishment while trying to find a mole and head off a terrorist atrocity

  Sunday Times Crime Club

• Truly authentic and frighteningly so . . . a remarkable thriller

  Shot Magazine

• Authentic, mysterious, fraught with deception, betrayal, and uncertain allegiances, it captures perfectly the foggy world of spies, populated by conspiracy and turncoats, both friends and enemies, an evocative descent into the Wilderness of Mirrors

  author of Red Sparrow

• Matthew Richardson’s debut is a bang-up-to-date thriller told with old-school panache. A great read

  CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Dead Lions

• Elegant and assured, My Name is Nobody weaves a complex web of moles, double agents and tradecraft, brought right up to date by a fresh young voice . . . compelling spy fiction

  bestselling author of Amnesia

• A supremely confident debut . . . This story is told with panache and a taste for spy craft that mark it as outstanding

  Daily Mail

• Told with panache and a taste for the intricacies of craft that mark it as outstanding … Solomon Vine reminds me not so much of le Carre’s Smiley, but rather Len Deighton’s spy in his marvellous debut The Ipcress File. If he keeps going, Vine could be that good … a supremely confident debut

  Daily Mail