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  • Engels
  • E-book
  • 9780007416905
  • 15 september 2011
  • Adobe ePub
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For all fans of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY comes this masterclass in suspense about a spy caught up in his own web of deception…

Alec Milius is young, smart and ambitious – with a talent for deception. When a chance encounter opens the door to a career with MI6, he is desperate to make his mark.

But life as a spy begins to take a terrible toll on himself and those around him, and soon Alec is chasing not just success but survival. Forced to work alone, he spins a web of deceit that traps him centre stage in a game of global espionage.

In this new job, the difference between truth and a lie can be a matter of life and death. And for Alec, it’s getting harder to tell them apart…

A Spy By Nature is the bestselling novel with which Charles Cumming announced his arrival as heir apparent to masters like John le Carré and Len Deighton; compellingly told, utterly authentic and heart-racingly intense, it will grip you till the very last page.

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Charles Cumming
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HarperCollins

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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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