In the Absence of Evidence

By: Rowan Pyke

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Mole-hunt. Black-bag job. Unsigned authority. Trust the quiet one.

A mole doesn’t always run. Sometimes he files.

When an assessment “goes out” without the required signature, analyst Nell Ward traces the error the only safe way—through process. The trail leads to a tidy life that’s a little too tidy, to Russian grammar pages kept for a mouth that “doesn’t speak,” and to dates and places (Vienna, Prague) that reappear like a watermark.

Inside rooms where silence is procedure, Nell has to decide which records to keep and which to let die. One torn notebook page might clear her, damn a colleague, or both. Competence is supposed to be invisible—until the building needs someone who understands what an unbroken talc line means.

For readers who crave tradecraft over chases and moral complexity over easy villains, this literary espionage thriller offers a precise, absorbing mole-hunt you’ll think about every time a form is signed in blue ink.