'GRIPPING, EXCITING AND DEFTLY PLOTTED... A BOOK ONE WOULD BE SERIOUSLY ANNOYED TO HAVE TO PUT DOWN' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Alee Milius is young, smart and ambitious. He is also comfortable with deceit. So when a chance encounter leads him to M16, Alec thinks he's landed the perfect job for his talents. Compelled to work alone, relying on instinct, he's soon spinning a web of deception that traps him between his new masters and powerful adversaries. For in his new line of work the difference between the truth and a lie can mean the difference between life and death. And Alec is having trouble telling them apart...

A Spy by Nature is the calling card of a major new talent; compellingly told, utterly authentic and heart-racingly tense, it will grip you till the very last page.

A complex tale of code words, betrayal of friendship, bluff and counterbluff... Cumming writes it like it is' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Eerily good ... a strong and serious entertainment; don't miss'

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