Uncommon Enemy: A Charles Thoroughgood spy thriller - Couverture souple

Judd, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1416511156 ISBN 13 : 9781416511151

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2013

Synopsis

From a prison cell, in which he has been held on suspicion of breaking the Official Secrets Act, Charles Thoroughgood awaits not only his bail, but also the reappearance of the woman whom all the major roads in his life have led back to. After his years in the army and then with MI6, Charles has begun a new chapter in his life with the Secret Intelligence Agency, shadowing the movements of a suspected double agent. Charles knows that he has nothing to hide, and as he casts his mind over the course of recent events, he begins to suspect a more sinister motivation, both personally and politically, behind his incarceration…

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Judd is the author of two biographies and seventeen novels, three of which have been filmed. He has won the Guardian Fiction award, the Heinemann award and the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby award. His novels include the Charles Thoroughgood spy series and A Fine Madness, featuring the life and death of Christopher Marlowe, poet, playwright and spy. He also wrote The Quest for C, the authorized biography of Mansfield Cumming, founder of MI6, for which he was granted access to Cumming’s diary. He has reviewed widely and has been a regular columnist for the Telegraph, the Spectator and the Oldie. He is an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A penetrating new spy thriller from a master of the genre

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1416511156
• ISBN 13: 9781416511151
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Simon & Schuster; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie