Eclipse of the Mind - R.J. Alexander

Birmingham, England. 1971.

At the height of the Cold War, Elliot Wolfe has built Ironclad into one of the most formidable consulting firms in the world by never taking a case that doesn't challenge him. The Bennetts challenge him in ways he wasn't expecting. Hugh and Charlotte are brilliant, unconventional, and unsettling and the moment Ironclad steps into their world, the rules change for everyone, including the guarded and quietly formidable Isaac Mercer.

Told through multiple perspectives, Eclipse of the Mind pulls readers into the lives of a consultant who thrives on strategy, a former soldier who trusts no one, and the enigmatic husband and wife at the center of it all-whose relationships with one another are as complicated as the conspiracy closing in around them. Love here doesn't follow convention. It builds quietly between people, between partners who have learned to share, between those who have no roadmap for what they're feeling and no time to figure it out.

From the streets of Birmingham to the corridors of power across Britain and beyond, something dangerous is moving in the shadows. And it knows exactly who they are.

Unapologetically LGBTQ+, deeply character-driven, and set against the tension of Cold War Britain, Eclipse of the Mind is espionage fiction for readers who want the action and the heart in equal measure.