Présentation de l'éditeur :
For six years, Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past. But his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by M16 after a disastrous operation with the CIA, Milius has slowly rebuilt his life in Madrid: he has a flat, a job and a relationship. Older and wiser than the young spy who first caught the eye of British Intelligence, Milius still has a talent for deception. So when a prominent politician disappears in suspicious circumstances he can't resist tracking him down. But the rules have changed. Alec is now working alone. Paranoid and expendable, he soon becomes vulnerable to the ruthless duplicities of the secret world. He can trust no one. But as he comes face to face with the nightmare of modern terror, Alec is given one last chance for redemption...
Biographie de l'auteur :
Charles Cumming was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1971. He was educated at Eton and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994. He is a contributing editor of The Week magazine, and occasionally writes book reviews for The Mail on Sunday. In the summer of 1995, Charles was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6 - A Spy By Nature - published in 1999. His second novel, The Hidden Man, was published in 2003. A sequel to A Spy By Nature, titled The Spanish Game, was published in 2006. Typhoon, a thriller about a clandestine American plot to destabilise China on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, was published in 2008.
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