A Spy by Nature

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780312366353
  • 10 juli 2007
  • 320 pagina's
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This is what they told me a long time ago.
Only make contact in the event of an emergency.
Only telephone if you believe that your position has been fatally compromised.
Under no circumstances are you to approach us unless it is absolutely necessary in order to preserve the security of the operation.
This is the number.

Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center-stage in a dangerous game of espionage.
In his new line of work, Alec finds that the difference between the truth and a lie can mean the difference between life and death—and he is having trouble telling them apart. Isolated and exposed, he must play a role in which the slightest glance or casual remark can seem heavy with unintended menace. Caught between British and American Intelligence, Alec finds himself threatened and alone, unable to confide in even his closest friend. His life as a spy begins to exact a terrible price, both on himself and on those around him.
Richly atmospheric and chillingly plausible, A Spy By Nature announces the arrival of British author Charles Cumming as heir apparent to masters like John le Carré and Len Deighton. A bestseller in England, it’s the gripping story of a young man driven by ruthless ambition who finds himself chasing not just success, but survival.

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Charles Cumming

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  • Too much psychology

    Much acclaimed 2001 debut novel situated mainly in London during 1995-7. A blurb from “The Mail on Sunday” on my paperback’s cover likens it to John Le Carré’s early novels. How so? Reading on and on right to the end, 511 pages later, this reader concludes that CC is a splendid writer indeed, but that “The Mail…”’s comparison is dead wrong. Readers will glean plenty more insight about what is at stake from the book’s abstracts and other reader comments…
    The book is quite unlike early JLC, who never wrote so many pages, in the I-form, about a scheming, chatty, ambitious, self-conscious, insecure and opinionated proto-spy such as Alec Milius here. In addition, everything Milius says or does is immediately followed by him commenting or explaining why he acted as such, adding easily 150-200 pages to the narrative, slowing everything down, making for overlong, sometimes tedious chapters. JLC also never mentioned infamous spies by name, nor made chance remarks on e.g. ongoing elections, political parties, politicians, the NHS, phone bills, landlords with foreign names or call the French or the EU names that cannot repeated here. Such opinionated padding makes books rapidly appear dated, although the state of the NHS appears unchanged, twenty years later.
    The basic plot is quite good and style wise there is nothing wrong. The book just suffers from too much self love of the author projected onto his main protagonist. However, if “A Spy by Nature” is meant to show deep professional incompetence, its message has come across loud and clear.

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