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    A Divided Spy

    Written by Charles Cumming

    Narrated by Jot Davies

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    A Sunday Times top ten bestseller perfect for fans of John le Carré, 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).

    Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but all it has left him with is grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin.

    Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge. Taking the law into his own hands, he embarks on a mission to recruit the Russian spy he blames for the murder of his girlfriend.

    Kell tracks his nemesis from Kiev to London, but soon finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in which it becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 2, 2016
    ISBN9780007565948
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    A Divided Spy
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    Charles Cumming

    Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. In the summer of 1995, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6, and A Spy by Nature was published in the UK in 2001. In 2012, Charles won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year for A Foreign Country. A Divided Spy is his eighth novel.

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    • 4/5
      Enjoyable and holds your attention to the end. I will try another by the same author
    • 4/5
      I purchased this as an audible download, having previously listened to the first two Thomas Kell spy stories, here once again excellently narrated by Jot Davies.The pace and plot as usual never slow and this third installment is a continuation of Kell's story, now hunting for Rachel's killer(s). Excellent characterization, though perhaps skimping a bit on the nature of place when the location switches away from London (and Brighton); Cumming is always excellent on London, and his other books attest to his attention to foreign countries and towns, but here a bit lack luster.I also felt that the plotting was also a bit tired, certainly topical, finding answers to Kell's questions, but not particularly original.The ending makes me wonder if this is the last we'll see of Thomas Kell, or if he'll emerge with renewed vigour in a different career.
    • 4/5
      Excellent, a page-turning spy thriller with interesting, well fleshed out protagonists, a well-grounded plot and no excess descriptive prose. Recommended.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the writing style of this book. I enjoyed the spy tradecraft. The ending wasn't a surprise for me. The characters were believable and the story kept me interested. It went on a little long, but overall it was good. I'm not sure if I want to read more about Thomas Kell.
    • 5/5
      DS begins with now retired, divorced Kell being contacted by one of his former colleagues. Mowbray, while on holiday, has recognized a former adversary, Alexander Minasian, also on holiday and with a secret lover, a rather compromising one - a German businessman. Kell believes than Minasian, very highly placed in the Russian SVR, is responsible for the death of a young woman, Kell's former lover. Numerous revenge scenarios race through Kell's mind as Mowbray briefs him.The main plot of DS focuses on how best to leverage the knowledge of the illicit, by Russian standards, gay relationship. Ruin Minasian? Turn him? Interestingly, Kell's former boss, Amelia, aka "C", shows little interest in pursuing Minasian; she suspects it's a Russian trap, too risky.There is also a very interesting sub-plot. ISIS has planted a "warrior" in the UK. He is on a mission to kill a large number of Brits but little more is known about him. The source of this rumored attack? - Minasian.A very good story, with two back-to-back climaxes, both well done. Excellent prose, great dialog. Can you enjoy DS, if you haven't read the two previous Kells? Absolutely. I must confess that I remember very little of the two previous books, each written at two year intervals. This feels to me like a 5 minus. I suspect it is the last Kell. I think Cumming can do better, so I look forward to the next. Generally, I prefer series, but I believe Cumming's best might be the next stand-alone novel. Or the next....
    • 4/5
      The saga of Tom Kell (formerly of MI-6) continues in this book. He seeks revenge against the Russian spy who allegedly killed his girlfriend in the previous book in the series. It turns out that the Russian is a closet gay and Tom plans to use this information to blackmail him. There's a long run up to Tom getting the necessary evidence, and along the way an ISIS terrorist gets a role in the story. (The author includes some interesting insight into the mindset of ISIS "martyrs".) There's a suspenseful take-down of the terrorist in Brighton (of all places) and Tom emerges from it as a hero. He goes on to save the Russian from being assassinated by goons hired his Russian oligarch father-in-law. After all that Tom goes into an introspective funk and decides he's had enough of being a spy. Is this the end of the line? All in all, this book was a disappointment after the first two ones. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the author finds his mojo and comes back with another exciting spy adventure like first two Tom Kell ones.
    • 4/5
      'A Divided Spy', the 3rd in Charles Cumming's Thomas Kell series, is the weakest of the group but is still a worthwhile spy thriller. It can be read as a standalone, but it helps to have consumed the first 2.The story begins when Kell, still adrift since his previous adventures, is alerted to the presence at a resort of the Russian spy who was involved in the death of one of his previous close acquaintances. He proceeds to develop a plan to 'turn' the agent and somehow gain revenge for his prior actions. Of course, not being formally in the British spy community presents problems, as does Kell's previous relationship to the female head of MI6. In the meantime, a terrorist is planning an attack in an English seaside town. The fun, and intrigue, thus proceeds..... The writing isn't as crisp, nor is the dialogue, the character development is pretty non-existent (the hard work with that was done in the first 2 in the series), and Kell's actions seem pretty naive throughout, but the plot is decent and the conclusion is well-done. There's a lot of introspection by the Kell character but not enough solid logic used in his decisions, for my taste anyway. Like the others in the series, the tradecraft descriptions seemed solid. If you've followed the series, A Divided Spy is a nice addition but clearly not at the level of the first 2.
    • 2/5
      Minor Spy Fiction: "A Divided Spy" by Charles Cumming A Manuel Antão short-story based on "A Divided Spy"
      Now listen carefully 007. This might look like a perfectly ordinary steam iron, but if you turn the setting to cotton and then press the stream button…

      A/N: The following story is a sequel to "Forbidden Passions of João."


      You might be able to understand this story without reading what went first, but you won’t get all the references and “multi-layered subtext” I put in. If you don’t read the earlier stuff, take that into account when reviewing, that what seems to be mistakes might be me being something terrible deep…

      The rest of this "story" can be found elsewhere.
    • 4/5
      Thomas Kell had been through even before the start of this third novel to feature him. In A Foreign Country he was struggling to cope with life on suspension from MI5 following his involvement as ‘Witness X’ in a high profile trial arising from the alleged extraordinary rendition of a suspected terrorist by a CIA officer. Brought back into the fold following his contribution to the rescue of his former boss’s son, he then suffered the loss of his latest girlfriend, killed as part of the collateral damage from an operation in Istanbul that went awry.As A Divided Spy opens he is still wracked alternately by grief and guilt over the death of Rachel Wallinger. He is, however, shocked out of his torpor when a former associate contacts him with news about the Minasian, Soviet agent believed to have been the instigator of Rachel’s death. Glad of an avenue back into ‘the game’, Kell runs his own unofficial operation to try to ensnare Minasian. Things don’t go as planned.Cumming is masterful at building suspension and constructing delicately layered plots. Of course, in the nature of things I don’t know much about the world of secret services. This book did, however, have a pleasing air of plausibility, with a consistent internal logic. The story may progress more quickly than one of John le Carre’s plots, but displays the same meticulous planning. Kell is subject to the same frustrations, hopes and failings that Smiley and le Carre’s other protagonists display. Gripping, plausible and. Most importantly, entertaining.