SUMMARY: Alec Milius is young, smart, ambitious and comfortable with deceit. So when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, Alec thinks he's landed the perfect job for his talents. But working alone, relying on instinct, he's soon spinning a web of deception that has him caught between his new maste
A Spy by Nature
β Scribed by Charles Cumming
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Alec Milius is young, smart, ambitious and comfortable with deceit. So when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, Alec thinks he's landed the perfect job for his talents. But working alone, relying on instinct, he's soon spinning a web of deception that has him caught between his new masters and powerful opponents. For in his new line of work the difference between the truth and a lie can be the difference between life and death. And Alec is having trouble telling them apart ...;A Spy by Nature is the calling card of a major new talent; compellingly told, utterly authentic and heart-racingly tense, it will grip you till the very last page.
Library : General
Universes : Alec Milius [04]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780140294767
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