Charles Cumming, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-312-36635-3
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oosely based on the author's real-life experience of having been recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in 1995, Cumming's supremely intelligent and utterly readable debut will delight fans of such British masters of spy...
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Charles Cumming, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-312-36639-1
Alec Milius, the protagonist of Cumming's well-received first novel, A Spy by Nature
(2007), has created a new life in Madrid working as a researcher for a British private bank in this sterling sequel. His former employer, MI6, dismissed him...
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Charles Cumming, Author . St. Martin’s $25.99 (397p) ISBN 978-0-312-55852-9
In the tradition of old-school espionage fiction, Cumming (The Spanish Game
) lets character rather than plot carry this compelling thriller. William Lasker, a second-string agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service, takes on the job of...
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Charles Cumming, St. Martin's, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-67529-5
British author Cumming (Typhoon) revitalizes the moribund cold war spy novel in this stunning stand-alone that centers on the "Cambridge Five" (Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, et al.), who betrayed their country to the Soviet Union during and after...
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Charles Cumming. St. Martin’s, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-59133-5
Bestseller Cumming follows 2011’s The Trinity Six with another superb stand-alone, which opens in 1978 Tunisia, where Amelia Weldon, a 20-year-old British au pair, is having an affair with her expatriate French employer. Fast forward to the present,
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Charles Cumming. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-02061-1
Cumming’s intricate sequel to 2012’s A Foreign Country finds British operative Thomas Kell, who’s been indefinitely suspended from the SIS, reevaluating his life between pints of pale ale at a London pub. But when the call comes from “C”— SIS’s...
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Charles Cumming. St. Martin’s Griffin, $15.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-36638-4
First published in the U.K. in 2003, bestseller Cumming’s enjoyable second novel falls short of the high standard of his later spy thrillers such as 2012’s A Foreign Country. MI5 agent Stephen Taploe is investigating Russian mobster Viktor Kukushkin,
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Charles Cumming, read by John Lee. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1140-8
The Cambridge Five (Maclean, Burgess, Blunt, Philby, and Cairncross)—who were recruited in their university days as Soviet spies, then became members of the British government—have long been a source of inspiration for international thrillers. In...
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Charles Cumming, read by Jot Davies. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-2181-0
In this audio edition of Cumming’s thriller, narrator Jot Davies’s crisp, stiff-upper-lip performance perfectly captures Thomas Kell, a former British agent who was unceremoniously dismissed from MI6 after two decades of service for his involvement...
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Charles Cumming, Author, Simon Vance, Read by , read by Simon Vance. Tantor Audio $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-1042-1
Drawing upon his experiences working with the British Secret Service, Cumming returns with another spy thriller that is as thrilling as and more fully realized than previous works. Protagonist Alex Milius has learned a lot since his release from MI6
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Charles Cumming, Author, Simon Vance, Read by Tantor Media $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0517-5
This incredibly atmospheric spy-thriller is read wonderfully by Vance. Cumming's debut-part fiction and part memoir-is beautifully realized by Vance, whose rich British accent seems perfectly suited for this appealing tale. With a variety of pitch-pe
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Charles Cumming. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-02104-5
In bestseller Cumming’s nuanced, suspenseful third Thomas Kell novel (after 2014’s A Colder War), the London-based former MI6 agent, who’s been a private citizen for 12 months since the assassination in Istanbul of his girlfriend and fellow spy,...
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Charles Cumming, read by Jot Davies. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 9 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-8205-7
At the start of Cumming’s third Thomas Kell novel, the disillusioned, disgraced ex-British spy is still mourning the death of his paramour, Rachel Wallinger, when a former associate provides him with a way to avenge her murder. Kell convinces his...
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Charles Cumming. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-12995-6
At the start of this uneven spy novel from bestseller Cumming (The Trinity Six), thriller writer Kit Carradine is accosted on a London street by Robert Mantis, who claims to be a big fan of his books. Mantis, whose card identifies him as a British...
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Charles Cumming. Mysterious, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61316-273-6
Lachlan Kite, the hero of this excellent spy thriller from bestseller Cumming (The Moroccan Girl), is a career man at Box 88, a joint British-U.S. black ops outfit so secretive that not even the CIA and MI5 are sure it exists. While attending a...
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Charles Cumming. Mysterious, $27.95 (494p) ISBN 978-1-61316-339-9
The main action of Cumming’s ambitious sequel to 2021’s Box 88 opens with the assassination in Connecticut of 77-year-old Saul Kaszeta, a former Russian general. Kaszeta “had been a source for BOX 88, a top-secret Anglo-American spy agency, for the...
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Charles Cumming. Mysterious Press, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-613-16455-6
Bestseller Cumming adeptly intertwines spy missions past and present for this taut third entry in his BOX 88 series (following 2022’s Judas 62). In 1995, Lachlan “Lockie” Kite is still a fledgling agent with BOX 88, an ultra-secret Anglo-American...
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