GORDON HENDERSON
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RELEASED 4TH SEPTEMBER 2026
Operation Doppelganger
Steven Statton (a very working-class spy) is back, and he is faced with a Hamas plot to potentially kill hundreds of thousands of people. The terrorists are operating on behalf of China, Iran, Russia, and a dissident South African group. The plot is being funded by a shadowy organisation whose members are some of the wealthiest people in the world.
Statton is helped in his efforts to foil the plan by an American CIA agent he thought was dead, and a beautiful Israeli Mossad agent. However, he is hampered by the actions of a traitor in British Intelligence who is passing information to the enemy.
Statton also has to deal with the emotional distractions raised by his relationship with lover Harriet Barratt, and his father, who he discovers is secretly helping to run a covert intelligence operation with the code name Operation Doppelganger.
The action takes place during 2020, with the world already starting to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic.
About
Considering his background, books and writing have always been important to Gordon Henderson.
He was born in Brompton Military Hospital in 1948 and is a proud 'Man of Kent'. His love of Kent is as strong today as it was when he was growing up in the ‘Garden of England’.
Gordon’s early life was spent in the Medway Towns, where he grew up on the Wayfield council estate in Chatham. In post Second World War Britain there was still rationing and much privation. For a kid from a working-class family, there was little enough money for food, let alone books.
Gordon’s birth mother died of Leukaemia when he was six years old, and his sister and he were sent to live with his aunt, uncle, and three cousins, who also lived in a council house in Wayfield. There were two adults and five children living in a three-bedroom house. Today, such an arrangement would be considered overcrowding, but back then it was the norm. There were no books in the house and no great desire to have any.
When Gordon was 11 years old his dad remarried, and his sister and he moved back to live with him and their new mum. At last Gordon had his own bedroom and that Christmas he was given, as a present, his first book to read. It Just William by Richmal Crompton. More books followed and he became an avid reader, often reading late into the night, using a torch to read because his parents insisted his bedroom light was switched off.
Gordon failed the Eleven Plus, so missed a grammar school education, instead attending Fort Luton Secondary Modern School for Boys. Because his Eleven Plus result was borderline, he was placed in what was called the X Stream. It was during his time at Fort Luton that he discovered a talent for writing, developed a love of words and the structure of sentences. That love has stayed with him and shines through in his writing.
Gordon left school at 16 and went to work for Woolworths. Shortly after, he bought his first adult novel: The Ipcress File, by Len Deighton. He was hooked and has been a lover of Deighton ever since. He also started writing short stories and had a spy story published in the Woolworths’ house magazine.
He stayed with Woolworths for 15 years, ending up as a store manager in London. After Woolworths he moved to South Africa, where he owned a restaurant. On his return to the UK Gordon had a variety of jobs, including with GEC Avionics, Unwins Wine Group, and Beams International. In 2010 he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey.
During his working life Gordon continued to write short stories and full length novels, most of which were never published. Five books have been published: Pigeon Pie And Other Tasty Tales (a volume of short stories); Operation Seal Island; The Mandela Project; Steven Statton – A Very Working-Class Spy; and Operation Doppelganger.
Gordon is now a full time writer
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