A Manuel Antão short-story based on "A Divided Spy" Now listen carefully 007. This might look like a perfectly ordinary steam iron, but if you turn the setting to cotton and then press the stream button… A/N: The following story is a sequel to "Forbidden Passions of João." You might be able to...
Imagine if the head of counter-intelligence for the CIA were unmasked to be a Soviet agent. Seems inconceivable, doesn't it? Yet Britain underwent precisely that in the '50s and '60s as Kim Philby was revealed to be a Soviet double agent, along with his college friends, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt and C...
The Cambridge Five, as you probably know, was a ring of spies all recruited by the Soviets after having become communists during their years at university in the thirties. Four of the five--Kim Philby, Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt--have been definitively known since the fifti...
So, Hannah and Kate having made me dive into my first spy thriller with the wonderful “A Foreign Country” by the same author, were kind enough to send me a copy of one of his other novels “The Trinity Six” Yes I love those girls! Because this was absolutely superb once again.Sam Gaddis, Academic, ne...
So Hannah and Kate of Killer Reads/Harper Collins fame have been subtlety and well, not so much, nagging me to read this book for a while. Its a spy thriller. I wouldnt normally read one because although I adore “Spooks” as a tv show, I’ve never really had the inclination to read that type of story ...
One of the pleasures of Cumming's fiction is that his characters often show a certain literary flair. The subtle characterization is also a hallmark of Cumming's work. You get to know the characters intimately."A Foreign Country" is one of those very rare books that from its first page demonstrates ...
Now only "A Foreign Country" remains to be read.In here there are no shoot-outs, improbable escapes, implausibly glamorous and resourceful central characters. Charles Cumming is interested in something more: in nuance, in character, in building atmosphere and tension. In other words, he's a sophisti...
blurb - London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a London hospital. An obituary describes him only as a 'resourceful career diplomat'. But Crane was much more than that – and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from what they seem.Fifteen years later, academic ...
I won this from the Goodreads First Reads Giveaway.Terrific book! I really enjoyed. It kept my attention completely from start to finish. I'll be checking out other books by this author. I love this type of spy thriller.
Dr. Sam Gaddis is an academic, specialising in Russia. He lectures at a London College and writes unpopular books. He is also facing some grave financial demands he can’t meet. What he needs is an idea for a book that will be a bestseller, a proposal for which he will get a huge advance. When a frie...
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