Books by Charles Cumming
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review 1: Not a bad thriller, which had me turning the pages which is of course the main aim. The plot revolves around Amelia Levene , who just about to be appointed C in MI6 disapears, rogue agent Tom Kell is asked to find her and so the thriller starts. My only reservation was Kell's spe...
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review 1: 400 pages of class A spy-fiction! A clever novel, even though there is no major plot-twist, and the author leaves no surprises for the last 20 chapters, but it's still a very solid work. Maybe not a masterpiece, but if you're a fan of the genre, then this novel is a must-read. Th...
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review 1: Reasonably well written, intriguing, gripping -- all those things one wants in a novel about spies. I felt the characters' motivation lacking at times though -- they would go from point A to point C in their thought processes without pausing at point B. It was weird. It's hard to...
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review 1: A great read. But I am biased. The book is set primarily in Hong Kong and Shanghai, and, so, knowing both of those cities well, I am biased. Especially in Hong Kong, I remembered many of the locations in the book from when I lived there, and Cumming captured the atmosphere in bot...
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review 1: I really enjoy Charles Cumming's writing, and this was no exception. I would give this a 3.5. The only reason it doesn't get a 4 from me is that the foreshadowing of one of the character's fate had me already suspecting cerrtain events. That, mixed with my usual confusion with sp...
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review 1: This was a pretty excellent book. It was very exciting and managed to keep the tension going even through some of the slower parts. I really enjoyed this book because by the end, Sam Gaddis is not some super spy like Jason Bourne, he is just a college professor caught up in extra...