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    The Spanish Game: A Novel
    The Spanish Game: A Novel
    The Spanish Game: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Spanish Game: A Novel

    Written by Charles Cumming

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    For six years, Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past, but his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation against the CIA, Milius has slowly rebuilt his life in Madrid. Older and wiser than the young spy who first caught the eye of British Intelligence, Milius still has a talent for deception-and a fatal weakness for secrets. So when a prominent politician disappears under suspicious circumstances, Milius can't resist tracking him down.

    But the rules have changed. Alec is now working alone, outside the boundaries of any official agency. Paranoid and expendable, he soon becomes vulnerable to the ruthless duplicities of a secret world in which no one can be trusted. Yet as he comes face to face with the nightmare of modern terror, Alec is given one last chance for redemption.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 29, 2008
    ISBN9781400180424
    Author

    Charles Cumming

    Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. 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. In 2012, Charles won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year for A Foreign Country. A Divided Spy is his eighth novel.

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    • 5/5
      I'm so glad that I went back and re-read "A Spy By Nature" before I started this sequel. You need to understand the reasons for his paranoia to be able to get into this story. As another reviewer commented, I wouldn't want to know Alec Milius, but in this book, I did have some sympathy for him.
      It is, I think, better written than its predecessor, particularly in terms of sustaining the pace, despite a lot of interesting exposition about the Basque struggle. It twists and turns and, like Alec, you begin to suspect everyone, and you are right to!
      I have already picked up the rest of Cummings' oeuvre and look forward to reading them over the coming weeks with pleasureable expectation
    • 3/5
      Really loved Trinity Six. Maybe I should have read the book that introduces the MC (Spy by Nature). Learned a whole lot about Spanish politics and "dirty wars".
    • 3/5
      An enjoyable and tightly-plotted espionage novel though not quite up its predecessor, "A Spy By Nature" in which Alec Milius maze his first appearance.
    • 3/5
      A fast paced sequel to Cumming's 'A spy by Nature. The Madrid setting is well done, the action fast paced and Milius saves the day.
    • 2/5
      This is a follow up to A Spy By Nature, which I haven't read & maybe should for bits & pieces of this book to make more sense to me.Lots of people think this guy is the next Le Carre, but I'm not one of them. There are plenty of twists & turns in this & the writing is clean & effective, but ultimately I couldn't manage to care about the main character & in this book that was a problem for me.Cumming plots well, keeping the pieces of his puzzle in play quite easily. He writes fairly vividly of Madrid & of the Basque country, although I wished for a bit more information on ETA & the general conflict. I suspect our hero could've used this information, too & maybe that's part of the point.Our hero seems convinced that he's Philby & the world is out to get him, but comes off as rather self-important so by the time various people DO get him I was rather relieved &, frankly, on their side.