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A Foreign Country
Charles Cumming
Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year. Selected by the Sunday Times and the Guardian as Best Thriller. Perfect for fans of John le Carré, a gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday) WITH AN EXCLUSIVE AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR.Six weeks before she is due to become the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene disappears without a trace.Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her – quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world, the only life he’s ever known.Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different – and the consequences worse than anyone imagines…
CHARLES CUMMING
A Foreign Country
Copyright
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Copyright © Charles Cumming 2012
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Cover photographs © Josephine Pugh/Arcangel Images (cityscape); Henry Steadman (foreground and figure, right); SuperStock (bench, seated man); Shutterstock.com (http://Shutterstock.com) (all other images)
A Colder War extract © Charles Cumming 2013
Charles Cumming asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Extract from The Spirit Level copyright © Seamus Heaney
Published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber 2001
Reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber
Extract from The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley © 1953 Hamish Hamilton reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd
Extract from Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham © 1928 William Heinemann reproduced by kind permission of A P Watt on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Ebook Edition © March 2012 ISBN: 9780007346448
Version: 2016-05-03
Dedication
For Carolyn Hanbury
Epigraph
‘There’s just one thing I think you ought to know before you take on this job … If you do well you’ll get no thanks and if you get into trouble you’ll get no help. Does that suit you?’
‘Perfectly.’
‘Then I’ll wish you good afternoon.’
W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’
L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
Contents
Cover (#u3f26131b-fae9-57b1-9a47-42e1cc5132b6)
Title Page (#uccbd309c-1e08-5090-b820-2efc4fe981e3)
Copyright (#u7ed6d7a3-3980-52ad-8997-a4f6250fffac)
Dedication (#u882decf8-138c-56d6-a25d-c252bdd450de)
Epigraph (#u9e0cc136-9a8a-522b-9c03-bf3326ac7675)
Tunisia, 1978 (#u2f792197-9b7c-5375-a039-cceab2d71d72)
Chapter 1 (#uf1404e1d-a9e8-557a-bd78-04702f3554ec)
The Present Day (#u95869d79-814b-5f14-8241-a0786f9381e8)
Chapter 2 (#u09442355-8d76-5988-8ee3-0cdcd8d7a3cc)
Chapter 3 (#ub098089a-a295-5c65-a02a-846f42616d37)
Chapter 4 (#u715965b8-a2be-5f55-8592-5a4195f3fe06)
Chapter 5 (#u2835797a-4cb9-5949-9d5d-025240c55e71)
Chapter 6 (#u98232d4b-54c1-5ad7-9131-c0c9bd1ed471)
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