A Foreign Country (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller, Book 1)

Name: A Foreign Country (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller, Book 1)
Rating: 4.349999904632568 (40 reviews)

Charles Cumming

Mar 2012 · Thomas Kell Spy Thriller Book 1 · HarperCollins UK

4.3

40 reviews

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Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. Selected by Sunday Times Books of the Year and The Guardian as Best Thriller of the Year.

Perfect for fans of John le Carré, a gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday)

Six weeks before she is due to become the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene disappears without a trace.

Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her – quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world, the only life he’s ever known.

Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different – and the consequences worse than anyone imagines...

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4.3

40 reviews

Keith Jones

February 5, 2013

An excellent read - well paced and researched with enough detail to make it uncomfortable at times, realising the compromises and blind eyes that Western governments so easily resort to. Highly recommended!

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Izzat Sofian

February 3, 2015

it unveils a lot about investigations and spies and it's great!

1 person found this review helpful

Colin

October 31, 2016

Really enjoyed this book

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About the author

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.

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