Book
Double Encryption
A 1977 espionage novel spanning London, Paris, and rural France, built around a stolen wallet, hidden film, and layered loyalties.
Book Summary
Set in 1977, Double Encryption begins when Lisa Adams is tasked with lifting a wallet and a Minox film cartridge at a London political fundraiser. What appears to be one controlled operation quickly opens into overlapping intelligence interests, staged narratives, and a chain of consequences running from London to Paris and rural France.
Structured across three parts and thirty chapters, the novel tracks shifting alliances, covert handlers, legal and political pressure, and the personal cost of survival inside systems built on secrecy. Lisa's journey sits at the centre, balancing self-preservation with conscience as each new layer reframes the one before it.
The ending resists neat closure. Instead, it delivers hard-won ambiguity: institutions continue, people adapt, and meaning is carried in what characters choose to keep, reveal, or walk away from. The final note is restrained, human, and quietly defiant.