Working with British spies at MI5 and MI6 has given the author who uses the pseudonym Ava Glass the knowledge to write about spies. She has trained them, worked in counter-terrorism and even been vetted to become a spy herself. James Patterson has referred to Ava’s feisty lead character, Emma Makepeace, as ‘the heir to James Bond’. Did this add more pressure on her when writing the second book about her female spy?
‘It’s wonderful, and incredibly generous,’ she says. ‘There are vanishingly few women
