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Internationally acclaimed as "a premier writer of espionage thrillers" (USA Today), Charles Cumming is "among the most skillful spy novelists" (Washington Post) and "a worthy successor to the masters…like John le Carré and Len Deighton" (Chicago Sun-Times). Now, with A COLDER WAR, Cumming returns with MI6 agent Tom Kell (A Foreign Country), in a tour de force that will dazzle readers and critics alike.
A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on the streets of Tehran. These three incidents, seemingly unrelated, have one crucial link. Each of the three had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, before being removed or killed.
Then Paul Wallinger, MI6's most senior agent in Turkey, dies in a puzzling plane crash. Fearing the worst, MI6 bypasses the usual protocol and brings disgraced agent Tom Kell in from the cold to investigate. Kell soon discovers what Wallinger had already begun to suspect―that there's a mole somewhere in the Western intelligence, a traitor who has been systematically sabotaging scores of joint intelligence operations in the Middle East.
A Colder War, by Charles Cumming- Amazon Sales Rank: #105481 in Books
- Brand: Cumming, Charles
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Released on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.24" h x 1.11" w x 5.46" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From Booklist *Starred Review* Over several novels, Cumming has established himself, along with Olen Steinhauer, as one of the best of today’s old-school espionage novelists. His latest, a follow-up to A Foreign Country (2012), finds disgraced agent Tom Kell still out in the cold after being scapegoated in the wake of a torture scandal. That changes quickly when his former colleague, Amanda Levene, now head of MI6, drafts Kell to find out whether the airplane crash that killed her lover, Paul Wallinger, head of station in Turkey, was an accident or the work of a suspected mole. Or moles—Wallinger himself may have been a traitor driven to suicide. We’re in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy territory here, of course, but there are also hints of later le Carré, as Kell falls in love with Rachel Wallinger, Paul’s daughter, and quickly finds himself in that treacherous demilitarized zone between the personal and the political. Cumming is a master at describing the details of spy tradecraft, from electronic wizardry to tailing a suspect on the street, and one of the great pleasures of this novel is watching Kell and his team do their work. But is the price of doing that work—and living the clandestine life it requires—too high? Are ideals as deadly as bombs? Those are the fundamental questions of the spy novel, and Cumming asks them with great eloquence, revealing a contemporary twist or two in the way his characters frame their uncertain answers, but coming round in the end to the abiding melancholy that still shrouds all but the most heartless of spies. Superb espionage fiction in the grand tradition. --Bill Ott
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“Cumming has a growing reputation as the heir to the John Le Carré tradition in British fiction.” ―Alan Cheuse, NPR
“Compelling. . . complex. . . dangerous. . . Hard to put down.” ―Washington Post
“For those hungering for a new John le Carré, Charles Cumming has inherited the master's mantle.” ―The Sunday Times (London)
“One of the best books of 2014 thus far.” ―Bookreporter
“Cumming has established himself, along with Olen Steinhauer, as one of the best of today's old-school espionage novelists…We're in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy territory here, of course, but there are also hints of later le Carré, …Cumming is a master… Superb espionage fiction in the grand tradition.” ―Booklist (starred)
“Edgily elegant … perfect for those wanting a contemporary spy thriller in the vein of le Carré and even for those who don't.” ―Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
“The bombshell plot twists toward the novel's conclusion will have spy fiction aficionados eagerly awaiting the next installment.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“Charles Cumming scores again with a smart, sexy thriller, reinventing the Russian-American-British triangle of espionage for a new generation.” ―Alex Berenson
“Eat your heart out, Daniel Craig...Cumming vividly showcases the undercover life of spies.” ―GQ on A Foreign Country
“A fast paced and absorbing spy thriller.” ―Wall Street Journal on A Foreign Country
“Simmers and crackles until the explosive finale.” ―Library Journal on A Foreign Country
“Cumming is particularly skilled at sketching his characters, most notably Kell (a classically reluctant spy)....The elegant prose will appeal to those who don't usually read spy fiction...Superb.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred) on A Foreign Country
“Brilliant...scene after scene crackles with excitement, tension, and suspense...almost impossible to put aside.” ―Washington Post on The Trinity Six
“Silkily written and more cool than hot...might make le Carré proud.” ―New York Times Book Review on A Foreign Country
“A smashing Cold War thriller for the 21st Century.” ―People on The Trinity Six
“Cumming's masterful novel bears comparison to the works of Alan Furst and John le Carré.” ―Washington Post on The Trinity Six, a Notable Book of 2011
About the Author CHARLES CUMMING is the author of the first Thomas Kell book, A Foreign Country, as well as the New York Times bestselling thriller The Trinity Six, and others including A Spy by Nature and Typhoon. He lives with his family in London.
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41 of 45 people found the following review helpful. An entertaining spy novel By Sid Nuncius I thought this was a good, entertaining and in places very gripping spy thriller. It is well written and paced with a pretty decent plot and a good sense of place.The plot has been well summarized elsewhere on this page, but it involves a disgraced British spy, Thomas Kell, being brought back into the Intelligence fold to help to investigate some suspicious deaths of agents and to find the source of apparent leaks of information. We get a classic mole-hunt set in London and Turkey, and it's pretty well done. It is at its best when there is real tradecraft being described – surveillance, counter-surveillance, interpretation of detail in evidence and so on – which has led to comparisons with John le Carré.Such comparisons are premature, to say the least. The story is a perfectly decent one, but neither the plot nor the characters have anything like the depth and subtlety of le Carré. The, to me, rather overblown aspects of Kell's emotional life and the introduction of a somewhat cliché-ed This Time It's Personal element would have no place in a le Carré novel, for example. It's noticeable, too, that Cumming has a penchant for male lead characters of roughly his own forty-something age and for sensationally beautiful, sexy, intelligent and significantly younger women to fall in love - and lust - with them (see also Trinity Six, for example). Bless! I wouldn't dream of accusing him of using his books for wish-fulfilment, of course, but I do find it all a little credibility-stretching.I don't want to carp too much. I think we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves with the Great Spy Novel stuff, but I enjoyed the book. I found it very readable and in parts very exciting. Overall, I thought it was a very decent, engrossing spy thriller which would make an excellent holiday read.
28 of 33 people found the following review helpful. Short story long. By Vital Spark Another action-packed spy thriller from Mr. Cummings. His writing is intelligent and assured; his characters are realistic, and the Turkish and Ukrainian settings interesting.I have read a couple of his earlier novels and enjoyed both of them, and I enjoyed about three-quarters of this one. At almost four-hundred pages, it is far too long. It's like trying to sit through a James Bond movie of five or six hours duration. There is too much dialogue, too much explaining, too much detail. I got bored with it and had to skim the last eighty or so pages just to get through it. What's the deal with so many thriller writers churning out Dickens-length novels?
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful. AS GOOD AS IT GETS By David Keymer A mole is spilling the goods on the Middle Eastern operations of the British and American secret services. Two defectors are dead as a result. An MI6 agent of MI6 is too though it’s not clear if his death was an accident or not. Whatever the case, the timing is too coincidental to ignore. The head of MI6, “C”, brings disgraced agent Tom Kell out of retirement to find the mole. She’s using him because the dead MI6 agent was her lover --she has to play her cards close to the vest. Besides, she doesn’t trust her Cousins in the CIA not to screw it up if they get word and intervene with their big guns and little discretion.The plot premise isn’t unique. How many times have we read about the hunt for a mole inside a secret service in the West? But seldom is it done this well, making such a compelling read, as in this gripping spy thriller about Life In The Grey World. Cumming’s narration moves along with no drop in interest from Kell’s initial investigations until the final, pulse-stirring chase. The ending is bitter-sweet –more bitter than sweet, but that too matches the world Cummings has described: a world where honesty and loyalty have little room to grow but rather, suspicion and betrayal are served up daily with the midday meal.Cumming’s is a masterful storyteller at both extremes. He is a master of the small details --how do you run a multi-person tail of a suspicious and wily foreign agent? how close dare you get to a suspect before he, or she, suspects you?—but of the large picture too, including –and this is a definite plus—empathy for his hero, who is a flawed but ultimately decent, feeling individual.A Colder War is a really fine specimen of the genre, on a par with the best of John LeCarre, Charles McCarry or Olen Steinhauer, and you can’t do any better than that.
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