
Novel: Box 88 by Charles Cumming
The always reliable Charles Cumming’s new series begins with Box 88 (2020), a time-jumping spy thriller about a clandestine…
May 30, 2022The always reliable Charles Cumming’s new series begins with Box 88 (2020), a time-jumping spy thriller about a clandestine…
May 30, 2022It’s interesting that in an era of right-wing ascendance, spy novelists might center their stories on left-wing terrorist organizations…
April 5, 2019Charles Cumming’s latest is A Divided Spy (2017), which completes the trilogy featuring his outsider-spy protagonist Thomas Kell. While it…
February 22, 2017The novels of Charles Cumming have a tendency to propel themselves immediately to the top of my to-read stack,…
September 5, 2014I’ve sung the praises of Charles Cumming numerous times. His latest, A Foreign Country (2012), isn’t going to change…
March 18, 2013Charles Cumming mines British espionage history in The Trinity Six (2011), a smart but subdued spy tale. Cumming’s previous…
January 31, 2012If you had told me three years ago that I would have gotten this blog to 500 posts, I…
January 28, 2012So far, I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Charles Cumming, especially his debut novel A Spy By Nature, but…
June 19, 2011In The Spanish Game (2006), Charles Cumming returns to the viewpoint of Alec Milius, who debuted in Cumming’s first…
June 12, 2010Lately, reading spy novels makes me want to write my own, so in order to stay motivated for my…
February 17, 2010After a couple of challenging science fiction novels, I was ready for something brisk and intriguing. A Spy By…
July 22, 2009