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Charles Cumming on how he got ideas for his book A Divided Spy
Ideas come from all sorts of places and can appear at the strangest times. Stories can grow out of real-life experiences; they can pop at random while you're walking down the street or queuing at the supermarket with a basket of groceries.
My new novel, A Divided Spy, is the concluding instalment in a trilogy about a disgraced MI6 officer, Thomas Kell, who is offered a chance to bring down his nemesis, Russian spy Alexander Minasian. Minasian is a sociopath: charming, clever, ruthless and manipulative; a man without moral conscience whom Kell wrestles in a battle of hearts and minds.
Minasian is based on somebody I knew. The idea for his character grew out of my experiences of that person. Yet that same individual also inspired an entirely different character, a woman, in fact in my previous novel, A Colder War. Such are the strange and contradictory journeys taken by the creative imagination.
A NEW COLD WAR IS LOOMING
Former MI6 officer Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. Until the Russian agent he blames for the death of his girlfriend is spotted at a Red Sea resort - in dangerous company.
ONE SPY WANTS REVENGE
Taking the law into his own hands, Kell embarks on a mission to recruit his rival. Only to find himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in which it becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom.
THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL
As the mission reaches boiling point, rumours of a terrorist attack suggest a massacre on Britain soil is imminent. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6 - or to his own conscience?
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- Contributor: Charles Cumming
- Imprint: HarperCollins
- ISBN13: 9780007467549
- Number of Pages: 432
- Packaged Dimensions: 129x198x28mm
- Packaged Weight: 300
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Release Date: 2017-06-01
- Series: Thomas Kell Spy Thriller
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. Shortly after university he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), an experience that inspired his first novel, A Spy by Nature. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including A Foreign Country, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year. He lives in London.
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