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The Man Between: The gripping new spy thriller you need to read in 2018
Charles Cumming
‘Recommended. I read it one breathless sitting’ Ian RankinHe risked it all to become a spy. Now he must pay the price.A gripping new standalone spy thriller 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).One simple task for British Intelligence takes him into a world of danger.Successful novelist Kit Carradine has grown restless. So when British Intelligence invites him to enter the secret world of espionage, he willingly takes a leap into the unknown.But the glamour of being a spy is soon tainted by fear and betrayal, as Carradine finds himself in Morocco on the trail of Lara Bartok – a mysterious fugitive with links to international terrorism.Bartok is a leading figure in Resurrection, a violent revolutionary movement whose brutal attacks on prominent right-wing politicians have spread hatred and violence throughout the West.As the coils of a ruthless plot tighten around him, Carradine finds himself drawn to Lara. Caught between competing intelligence services who want her dead, he soon faces an awful choice: to abandon Lara to her fate or to risk everything trying to save her.‘An instant classic of the genre’ Mick Herron‘The Man Between is up there with the best – full of thrills, wit and fine writing’ Peter Robinson
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Dedication (#uea6a51c1-37b5-5a99-bd0e-480ac96f8ada)
For Luke Janklow and Will Francis
Epigraph (#uea6a51c1-37b5-5a99-bd0e-480ac96f8ada)
‘There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.’
Graham Greene, The Comedians
Contents
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Title Page (#u3def449d-e082-5e83-81b5-a8840fed8aa0)
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Moscow
London: Eighteen Months Later
Chapter 1 (#u7c920aea-e397-5139-a328-0d2ac0775d36)
Chapter 2 (#uf9d2493c-dee6-5315-8eeb-77d76eac3d34)
Chapter 3 (#ufa7889c5-53d8-5739-978d-7ed82ce4029a)
Chapter 4 (#ufdead4f0-2081-5a75-9eef-d586d5512bbe)
Chapter 5 (#uf414cd8f-ac92-5abe-a543-9bc458e7956a)
Chapter 6 (#u8c02c906-bd09-5390-b648-ddfafb2f992f)
Chapter 7 (#u368fbe45-3aa8-5ba7-838e-e4a86d65a99c)
Chapter 8 (#ued6899c7-02db-5e92-802d-d7bda4fc7ebb)
Chapter 9 (#u0ba07aa4-1a9f-54fa-8faa-cce857988337)
Chapter 10 (#ud31bf5f9-4ae7-558a-9378-7375be6f05d9)
Chapter 11 (#ubbf23007-b041-56b9-86cf-cf60d16378a1)
Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
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Chapter 51 (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements
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About the Author
By Charles Cumming
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‘Would you prefer to talk or to write everything down?’
‘Talk,’ she said.
Somerville crossed the room and activated the voice recorder. The American had brought it from the Embassy. There was a small microphone attached to a stand, a glass of tap water and a plate of biscuits on the table.
‘Ready?’ he asked.
‘Ready.’
Somerville leaned over the microphone. His voice was clear, his language concise.
‘Statement by LASZLO. Chapel Street, SW1. August nineteenth. Officer presiding: L4. Begins now.’ He checked his watch. ‘Seventeen hundred hours.’
Lara Bartok adjusted the collar of her shirt. She caught Somerville’s eye. He nodded at her, indicating that she should start. She brought the microphone slightly closer to her and took a sip of water. The American realised that he was standing in her eyeline. He moved to a chair on the far side of the room. Bartok did not continue until he was still and completely silent.
‘In the beginning, there were seven,’ she said.
SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE EYES ONLY / STRAP 1
STATEMENT BY LARA BARTOK (‘LASZLO’)
CASE OFFICERS: J.W.S./S.T.H. – CHAPEL STREET
REF: RESURRECTION/SIMAKOV/CARRADINE
