Robert Newman INTELLIGENCE with Leonie Gombrich

Seductive and witty, Intelligence is the unputdownable new novel from one of the UK's best-loved writers and comedians.

Intelligence

He about to recruit her into the secret service? She held her breath. Frogwoman, codebreaker, assassin, saboteur - whatever it was, she'd do it!

Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate theories of right and wrong. But as the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real. While her friends are called up to do intelligence work, Ida, the irrepressible Texan outsider, seeks academic distraction. Then she stumbles across secret Nazi information that could radically change the direction of the war. Can she and Medora capture the attention of the spymasters and mandarins in London in time to save thousands of lives?

Seductive, witty and page-turning, Intelligence is the unputdownable new novel from one of the UK's best-loved writers and comedians.

Robert Newman

Robert Newman is an English comedian, author and political activist. Newman found mainstream fame with The Mary Whitehouse Experience before forming a successful partnership with one of the programme's other comedians, David Baddiel, in the early 1990s.

His previous books include The Fountain at the Centre of the World, The Trade Secret and Neuropolis. He lives in London.

Leonie Gombrich

Leonie Gombrich is a writer, editor and executor of the literary estate of E. H. Gombrich, for which she oversaw the publication of Gombrich’s Little History of the World in English for the first time. She and Rob Newman have previously worked together on a broadcast for Radio 4. Leonie grew up in Oxford.