A Colder War: A Novel - Thomas Kell

Publisher Marketing: Internationally acclaimed as "a premier writer of espionage thrillers" (USA Today), Charles Cumming is "among the most skillful spy novelists" (Washington Post) and "a worthy successor to the masters like John le Carre and Len Deighton" (Chicago Sun-Times). Now, with A COLDER WAR, Cumming returns with MI6 agent Tom Kell (A Foreign Country), in a tour de force that will dazzle readers and critics alike. A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on the streets of Tehran. These three incidents, seemingly unrelated, have one crucial link. Each of the three had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, before being removed or killed. Then Paul Wallinger, MI6's most senior agent in Turkey, dies in a puzzling plane crash. Fearing the worst, MI6 bypasses the usual protocol and brings disgraced agent Tom Kell in from the cold to investigate. Kell soon discovers what Wallinger had already begun to suspect--that there's a mole somewhere in the Western intelligence, a traitor who has been systematically sabotaging scores of joint intelligence operations in the Middle East." Review Citations: Booklist 05/01/2014 pg. 18 (EAN 9781250020604, Open Ebook) - *Starred Review Audio File 12/01/2014 pg. 53 (EAN 9781427239488, Compact Disc) Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2014 pg. 94 (EAN 9781250020611, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/15/2014 pg. 94 (EAN 9781250020611, Hardcover) Booklist 05/01/2014 pg. 18 (EAN 9781250020611, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 06/16/2014 (EAN 9781250020611, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014 (EAN 9781250020611, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 80 (EAN 9781250020611, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 08/05/2014 (EAN 9781250020611, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Cumming, Charles CHARLES CUMMING is the author of the first Thomas Kell book, "A Foreign Country", as well as the" New York Times "bestselling thriller "The Trinity Six, "and others including "A Spy by Nature "and "Typhoon. "He lives with his family in London.