A Foreign Country
β Scribed by Charles Cumming
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2012;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year. Selected by the Sunday Times and the Guardian as Best Thriller. Perfect for fans of John le CarrΓ©, a gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from 'the master of the modern spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday) WITH AN EXCLUSIVE AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR. Six weeks before she is due to become the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene disappears without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her β quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world, the only life he's ever known. Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different β and the consequences worse than anyone imaginesβ¦
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