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Leading british spy writer charles cumming found his vocation at 25 after he was approached by mi6. The best books on espionage recommended by charles cumming. Smartly paced and intricately plotted, cummings decidedly unglamorous look at industrial espionage provides plenty of elaborate deceits, double crosses and other trappings of a firstclass spy thriller. I didnt particularly like the main character, alec milius, who is deceitful and selfcentred to an almost narcissistic degree, and i didnt care much for the fact that the. He says that experience, brief but interesting, was crying out to be dramatised. First published in the united kingdom in 2001 by michael josepht. This is a deliberate, but misguided, choice by cumming, whose plot turns on the fact that milius is a chippy loser who. In a divided spy, a brilliant novel of modern espionage by new york times bestselling author charles cumming, mi6s thomas kell faces off against a handsome and charismatic russian double agent.
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