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    The Spanish Game
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Spanish Game

    Written by Charles Cumming

    Narrated by Charlie Anson

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A vivid and gripping novel from ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday) which sees Alec Milius coaxed back into the secret world to face the uncontainable danger of 21st century terrorism…

    For six years, Alec Milius has escaped the past. In Madrid, he has rebuilt his life, but remains in exile and in danger.

    Slightly older, and much wiser, than the young spy who first impressed MI6, he has kept his fatal attraction to secrets. So when a prominent politician mysteriously disappears, Alec is lured back into the spying game.

    Only this time he operates without the protection of any official agency – isolated and expendable, with nobody to turn to if things go wrong. And they soon do.

    But when Alec is confronted with the nightmare of modern terrorism, he is given one last chance for redemption…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 26, 2018
    ISBN9780008297817
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    The Spanish Game
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    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
      This has a few good twists. I looked forward to my bedtime reading and always read more than I intended before sleep. Your Spanish pronunciation will improve heaps too !
    • 2/5
      V difficult to follow. Understanding would require a print version plus a spreadsheet to track the complexities.
    • 5/5
      The sense of place and character is impressive. Great pace!
    • 4/5
      ***** spoiler alert***


      The story is well written and narrated, but I found it tedious at times. I found the protagonist unlikable and tedious, but then that's the point, he is a self serving, emotional coward and the tedium of the story reflects just that. The twist works and I had a feeling it was heading the way it did. The balance between his paranoia and the reality of his situation is interesting. I think the author intends the reader to have the above mentioned feelings, so 4 stars for a successful outcome.
    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The narration was excellent. I suppose it was written as current but is now pleasingly retro with its tech references!