A Colder War: (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller Book 2)
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Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6's top spy in Turkey is killed in a mysterious plane crash, his chance arrives... for Kell is the only man Service Chief Amelia Levene can trust to investigate the accident.
In Istanbul, Kell soon discovers that there is a traitor inside Western Intelligence. Then he meets Rachel- the dead spy's daughter- and the stakes grow higher still.
From London to Greece and into Eastern Europe, Kell tracks the mole. But a betrayal close to home transforms the operation into something more personal. Soon Kell will stop at nothing to see it through.
Our central character is Thomas Kell, a brilliant if flawed M16 officer who is struggling to get back into the spying game. That's because he has been discredited and disgraced (in Cumming's last novel, A Foreign County) and is languishing in London on unpaid leave. But Kell is about to find himself bounced back into his undercover life with a vengeance Richard Madeley
I liked Kell for his flaws more than anything else. He smokes 30 a day, is unfit, and has a terrible love life. But he is a brilliant intelligence officer, experienced and instinctive. So, he is exactly the right man to send to Istanbul to try and unpick the problem. Once there, he must dance a dangerous two-step with his opposite number in America's CIA and simultaneously watch his back as agents from Russia's sinister SVR circle.
There's romance, and comedy of the deadly kind and some beautiful, lyrical descriptions of Istanbul, the impossibly romantic city where east and west meet. I can't wait for Cumming's next one. Judy Finnigan
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- Contributor: Charles Cumming
- Imprint: HarperCollins
- ISBN13: 9780007467501
- Number of Pages: 464
- Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x29mm
- Packaged Weight: 330
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Release Date: 2015-01-01
- Series: Thomas Kell Spy Thriller
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: 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. A Colder War is his seventh novel.
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