<p>Praise for Typhoon:</p>
<p>‘Gripping, cleverly plotted, meticulously researched’ Mail on Sunday</p>
<p>‘Cumming gives us complex characters and a world-weariness that owe more to Smiley than Bond and mark him out as in the first rank of the new generation of espionage writers’ The Times – Top 10 Thrillers of 2008</p>
<p>‘If you read one spy novel this year, make it Typhoon’ The London Paper</p>
<p>‘A wholly compelling and sophisticated spy novel – vivid and disturbing – immaculately researched and full of harrowing contemporary relevance’ William Boyd</p>
<p>Praise for A Foreign Country:</p>
<p>‘We are in Smiley country, but with extra 21st century nuance … Cumming has an exquisite touch and we should treasure him’ Daily Mail</p>
<p>‘A thriller that has everything you could ask for – a twisty, sexy plot, topical themes, memorable characters and plentiful spy lore’ Sunday Times, Books of the Year</p>
<p>‘Refreshing, plausible and effective … Best of all is the sheer pace of the narrative’ Spectator</p>
<p>‘You are likely to be up for most of the night to find out how this novel ends. It grips from the first page … A fast-moving treat’ The Scotsman</p>

From the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year comes a gripping and suspenseful spy novel. Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Charles Cumming is ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday) Hong Kong, 1997. Only a few short months of British rule remain before the territory returns to Chinese control. It’s a feverish city. And the spooks are hard at work, jostling for position and influence. So when an elderly man emerges from the sea, claiming to know secrets he will share only with the British Governor, a young MI6 officer, Joe Lennox, sees the chance to make his reputation. But when the old man, a high-profile Chinese professor, is spirited away in the middle of the night by the CIA, it’s clear that there’s a great deal more at stake here than a young spy’s career. The professor holds the key to a sinister and ambitious plan that could have catastrophic repercussions for the world in the twenty-first century…
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From the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year comes a gripping and suspenseful spy novel. Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Charles Cumming is ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday)
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A gripping historical fiction spy thriller
A gripping historical fiction spy thriller • Charles Cumming won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year, and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year • Colin Firth has acquired the movie rights to Charles Cumming’s thrillers A Foreign Country, A Colder War, and a third novel in the Thomas Kell series • Approached by MI6 as a University graduate, Cumming vividly showcases in his novels his meticulous research and unique insight into the undercover life of spies • Cumming is the master of the 21st century spy thriller, writing sophisticated, complex novels that have the unmistakable stamp of absolute authenticity • He has attracted ecstatic reviews across the press, where he has been named by Robert Harris as the heir-apparent to le Carré’s throne Competition: A Legacy of Spies, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, I Am Pilgrim, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Cicero Trilogy, Skyfall. John le Carré, Robert Ludlum, Robert Harris, James Bond, Thomas Kell, Frank Gardner, Terry Hayes, William Boyd, Len Deighton
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007487189
Publisert
2014-04-24
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins
Vekt
310 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
31 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
464

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Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He has been described as ‘the man who most successfully gets under the skin of Britain’s intelligence agencies’ (The Times). In the summer of 1995, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6, and A Spy by Nature was published in the UK in 2001.