Charles Cumming

(born April 1971 - ) - Ayr

Charles Cumming
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Born in Ayr but educated at Eton and Edinburgh University, Charles Cumming is a writer of three spy novels, and a contributing editor of The Week and occasional reviewer for The Mail on Sunday.

In 1995, Charles Cumming was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (popularly known as MI6), and his experiences with MI6 helped shape his first novel, A Spy By Nature, which was published in June 2001.

His second novel, The Hidden Man, was published in 2003. He moved to Madrid in 2001, and his third novel, The Spanish Game, involved a plot by the paramilitary Basque organisation ETA to bring down the Spanish government.

Charles Cumming now lives in London with his wife.

  • Cover scan of The Hidden Man
    The Hidden Man Charles Cumming
    Mark and Benjamin Keen have not seen their father, Christopher, for 20 years. When he reappears hoping for a reconciliation, he has only begun to shed light on his shadowy past before being killed by an unidentified assailant.
  • Cover scan of The Spanish Game
    The Spanish Game Charles Cumming
    Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation, Milius has slowly rebuilt his life in Madrid. But he still has fatal weakness for deception and secrets, and it's an urge he is about to scratch when a prominent Spanish politician disappears in suspicious circumstances.
  • Cover scan of A Spy By Nature
    A Spy By Nature Charles Cumming
    Alec Milius is more interested in what doing something for his country can do for him than in what he can do for his country. So when a conversation with a friend of his late father leads to an interview with the SIS, Alec sees a lifeline.
  • Cover scan of Typhoon
    Typhoon Charles Cumming
    In the dying days of British rule in Hong Kong, an elderly man emerges from the sea demanding to see the Governor. He has, he says, information which threatens not just the territory's future, but that of China's stability itself. Information which, it soon becomes apparent, the CIA and MI6 will stop at nothing to control.

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