A Foreign Country: From the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author, a compelling spy action crime thriller you won’t want to put down: Book 1 (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller)

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He has been out of work for months and feeling sorry for himself, “his loyalty to the newly minted high priests of SIS . Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Thomas Kell, disgraced operative, is asked to track down Britain’s chief spy who has vanished just prior to taking up her new position.

Temporary rating: I'm only halfway through, but have been telling myself for 50 pages already "if this doesn't get better soon, I'm outta here.Also really liked the character of Thomas Kell much more than the novelist character of Trinity Six. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.

In A Foreign Country the truth is revealed relatively early, putting the reader in the intimate position of watching the concluding events with the knowledge that it is extremely unlikely that the hero will be outwitted.

The past is not simply what has been saved; it ‘lives and breathes … in every corner of the world’, adds a historian. Finally, once the Malot operation is uncovered, the book becomes little more than a cop and robber novel – a good cop and robber novel, but not much of a spy novel. Soon after, a young man is abducted from a dark Paris street in a 20-second maneuver “as easy as lighting a cigarette.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. I usually think of spies as so bland looking that they disappear into the woodwork or stonework of wherever they are. Ever more of the past, from the exceptional to the ordinary, from remote antiquity to barely yesterday, from the collective to the personal, is nowadays filtered by self-conscious appropriation.

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