# A Colder War - Paperback

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by **Charles Cumming** (Author)

**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 Carré 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.

### Author Biography

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.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** June 16, 2015

## Details

- **Price:** 33.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Espionage, Fiction, International Crime & Mystery, Mystery & Detective, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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