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978-0008696337

Icarus 17

Icarus 17

by Charles Cumming

Publisher Hemlock Press

Genre: Crime

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'Nobody writes more enjoyable spy thrillers than Charles Cumming’

ANTHONY HOROWITZ

‘Cumming has breathed new life into the spy novel’

BEN MACINTYRE

'The rightful inheritor of John le Carré's crown'

OBSERVER

Lachlan Kite should have left fieldwork behind by now.

As director of covert intelligence agency Box 88, he’s at the apex of his espionage career. But when Martha Raine – a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty years – begs for his help, Kite finds himself back in the game, racing to avert disaster.

Kite must find Martha’s son, Max, who vanished in Athens with his girlfriend, Yasmine. But the couple aren’t just missing, they’re running for their lives. Two rival agencies are hunting them, both with orders to kill on sight.

Max and Yasmine are carrying a dizzying secret, one which could pull apart the foundations of the Middle East for a generation. If Kite fails to save them, the costs – both personal and professional – will be catastrophic.

'If there was any question as to who is the rightful inheritor of John le Carré’s crown as the king of elegant spy fiction, this proves that it’s Cumming beyond any doubt' Observer

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About the Author

Charles Cumming

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He was educated at Eton and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 with First Class Honours in English Literature. In 1995, he was approached by the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).


The Observer has described him as “the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carré and Len Deighton left off”.


Charles Cumming’s novels have been translated into thirteen languages. His work is published in the United States by St Martin’s Press.


He is one of the trustees of The Pierce Loughran Memorial Scholarship fund which provides tuition fees for the Yeats Summer School in Sligo, Ireland. In 2008 he was a First Story writer-in-residence at Cranford Community College, London. He is also the founder and President of the Jose Raul Capablanca Memorial Chess Society.


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