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A Colder War: A Novel
Scritto da Charles Cumming
Narrato da Jot Davies
Azioni libro
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- Macmillan Audio
- Pubblicato:
- Aug 5, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781427239495
- Formato:
- Audiolibro
Descrizione
A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on the streets of Tehran. These three incidents, seemingly unrelated, have one crucial link. Each of the three had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, before being removed or killed.
Then Paul Wallinger, MI6's most senior agent in Turkey, dies in a puzzling plane crash. Fearing the worst, MI6 bypasses the usual protocol and brings disgraced agent Tom Kell in from the cold to investigate. Kell soon discovers what Wallinger had already begun to suspect—that there's a mole somewhere in the Western intelligence, a traitor who has been systematically sabotaging scores of joint intelligence operations in the Middle East.
A Macmillan Audio production.
Informazioni sul libro
A Colder War: A Novel
Scritto da Charles Cumming
Narrato da Jot Davies
Descrizione
A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on the streets of Tehran. These three incidents, seemingly unrelated, have one crucial link. Each of the three had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, before being removed or killed.
Then Paul Wallinger, MI6's most senior agent in Turkey, dies in a puzzling plane crash. Fearing the worst, MI6 bypasses the usual protocol and brings disgraced agent Tom Kell in from the cold to investigate. Kell soon discovers what Wallinger had already begun to suspect—that there's a mole somewhere in the Western intelligence, a traitor who has been systematically sabotaging scores of joint intelligence operations in the Middle East.
A Macmillan Audio production.
- Editore:
- Macmillan Audio
- Pubblicato:
- Aug 5, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781427239495
- Formato:
- Audiolibro
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The plot itself is, as always in this genre, straightforward at the high level but infinitely complicated beneath. Cumming writes beautifully and guides us through, in great detail, the decisions, indiscretions, thoughts, international competition, personality conflicts, and everything else that makes this such a wonderful read. The only real problem I had with the story was with Kell's emotional decision-making, but I suppose that's one of the things that contributed to how the plot unfolded. I just felt some of it was unlikely yet had great impact on the eventual results,
A Colder War uses the same characters as we experienced in A Foreign Country, and the series has great potential because the characters are so strong and well developed. Cumming seems to be getting better and better and I look forward to additional novels in this series. I've heard the comparisons to LeCarre and, although I think they're premature, Cumming certainly has greatness within reach.
I love Gentleman-thief's novels.
I don't usually do book or author comparisons, but this time I'm going down that path.
Is it possible to write successful spy fiction in Le Carrés Milieu? Yes, it is. Charles Cumming proves it.
In my teenage years I fell in love with spy novels. I devoured everything Le Carre, Len Deighton and Graham Greene ever wrote.
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