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"Breathtaking . . . suspenseful . . . Kell brings a note of grace to the treacherous world of the spy novel." --Washington Post

"A gripping tale of revenge, betrayal and the personal price that spying exacts." --People magazine

"A smart, nuanced, readable tale, reminiscent of Olen Steinhauer or Robert Littell . . . Cumming has mastered the texture and language of espionage . . . [A Divided Spy is] a fine specimen of a genre headed back toward the Kremlin." --USA Today

"Agent Kell ishell-bent on revenge -- but his quest ends up endangering Britain's nationalsecurity. Classic spy fiction at its best." --New York Post (Must-Reads)

"A magnetic tale of the New Cold War: not since George Smiley trapped Karla have we seen such a delicious recruitment between East and West." -- Jason Matthews, New York Times bestselling author of Palace of Treason

"Cumming not only tells a moving human story here, he also constructs an airtight espionage plot full of unanticipated twists and leading up to a perfectly orchestrated finale." --Booklist (starred)

"Nuanced, suspenseful . . . a perfectly constructed plot proves once again that Cumming is among today's top spy thriller writers." --Publishers Weekly (starred)

"Cumming writes with ruefully brittle intelligence and keeps the twists coming." --Kirkus Reviews

"Charles Cumming is astonishingly masterful at capturing the grey and sometimes amoral world of espionage. A Divided Spy feels authentic and is a riveting read that should be devoured in one sitting." --Valerie Plame, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House

"A convincing and gripping spy thriller with a clever, twisty plot, believable characters and an abundance of credible spy lore. Highly recommended." --The Age

"Thomas Kell has become one of the most interesting and well-drawn spies in contemporary literature -- a man who now deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as George Smiley, and who is every bit as discreet. . . . Delicately written, with Cumming's customary subtle humor, [A Divided Spy] confirms him as le Carre's heir." -The Daily Mail

"Cumming has a growing reputation as the heir to the John Le Carré tradition in British fiction." --Alan Cheuse, NPR

"Compelling. . . complex. . . dangerous. . . Hard to put down." --The Washington Post

In A Divided Spy, a brilliant novel of modern espionage by New York Times bestselling author Charles Cumming, MI6’s Thomas Kell faces off against a handsome and charismatic Russian double agent.

"Astonishingly masterful . . . riveting." —Valerie Plame, New York Times bestselling author of Fair Game

Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but it has left him with nothing but 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 a top Russian spy who is in possession of a terrifying secret. As Kell tracks his man from Moscow to London, he finds himself in a high stakes game of cat and mouse in which it becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom.

As the mission reaches boiling point, the threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack looms over Britain. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6—or to his own conscience?