A Divided Spy: A gripping espionage thriller from the master of the modern spy novel

A Divided Spy: A gripping espionage thriller from the master of the modern spy novel
Charles Cumming

A Sunday Times top ten bestseller, perfect for fans of THE NIGHT MANAGER, from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday).A NEW COLD WAR IS LOOMINGFormer MI6 officer Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. Until the Russian agent he blames for the death of his girlfriend is spotted at a Red Sea resort – in dangerous company.ONE SPY WANTS REVENGETaking the law into his own hands, Kell embarks on a mission to recruit his rival. Only to find himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in which it becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom.THIS TIME IT’S PERSONALAs the mission reaches boiling point, rumours of a terrorist attack suggest a massacre on Britain soil is imminent. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6 – or to his own conscience?

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Source ISBN: 9780007467549

Ebook Edition © June 2016 ISBN: 9780007467532

Version: 2017-03-22

Dedication (#ulink_ec546c1b-c488-5d8c-aade-d3c833f62739)

For Julia Wisdom

Epigraph (#ulink_bdc4eec7-b8ba-5444-b347-4f4f59d51ab7)

‘We are, I know not how, somewhat double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.’

Michel de Montaigne

‘Truth doesn’t always come from truthful men.’

James Salter

Contents

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Title Page (#u268acfc0-ad58-593b-bea8-ff8cd50a3c36)

Copyright (#u2f5f5c5b-82ac-5130-9679-5666c5709bf4)

Dedication (#u1614bcf1-5711-5da2-8731-e11bb9b7db40)

Epigraph (#uad902a53-d8a8-5aae-bc56-820a3ca6b4b9)

London (#u0b6c464b-a997-52c2-bd78-201440c9b7dd)

Chapter 1 (#u0ee88b15-d5b8-570d-9837-295bf134f8c9)

Five Weeks Later (#u5d3792ab-7c56-59bc-9fa9-0da444618357)

Chapter 2 (#ua14b3b3f-61d1-591e-85b8-e32c67d3891b)

Chapter 3 (#uad229b52-aabe-52ff-8e06-4302aafa5449)

Chapter 4 (#u85f2a439-c0e8-5fe4-ae05-4521ae0a7f06)

Chapter 5 (#ud9af2404-b05b-5aee-ba10-8b5cf61408c4)

Chapter 6 (#u245182aa-0e1d-5b47-a7d3-556a7613325b)

Chapter 7 (#ue91c19fe-b6dd-5b0b-8ad5-e015cc3607a4)

Chapter 8 (#u6587e14b-fc86-5b05-abbb-7364e86835cc)

Chapter 9 (#uc39384c0-1421-5fde-9272-40d20465b02c)

Chapter 10 (#u59810a44-0b4d-53cd-ac0d-44318433590f)

Chapter 11 (#u394ebfa6-72b1-517c-9fcf-bbb25cacf65e)

Chapter 12 (#u5f1d75ad-a002-51aa-9166-0c511613c2ab)

Chapter 13 (#u99ab2a61-7536-59cd-958e-96b4d7b540fb)

Chapter 14 (#u3e617bdb-a3e0-51df-9172-8afb1a89f7a1)

Chapter 15 (#u4c137f6f-ab3d-5a8c-896e-aa87116f06be)

Chapter 16 (#uf034f949-016a-5ca6-a027-8b69bb4175fa)