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Dec 28, 2008
Jeffrey
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This second book in the Alec Milius series finds our young ex-spy living in secret in Madrid, sleeping with his boss's wife and basically hiding out from both the British and the Americans. In the first book in this in series, Alec was involved in a bit of misdirection with the CIA, but has been on the run since it ended poorly and his girlfriend died under mysterious circumstances. Alec has three passports, using multiple fake names and practices his spy craft on everyone. Alec befriends a ex m
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Not much to like here. While I enjoyed the first Alec Milius book, "A Spy By Nature", "The Spanish Game" is just flat and ultimately boring. For me the problem is I have no knowledge or interest in Spanish politics or the Basque independence issue. The decieve and counter-deceive is too hard to follow and lost me somewhere in the middle of the book, so that I found by the end of it, I just didn't care anymore and was looking forward to finding something better to read next.
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After A Spy by Nature remember thinking Alec Milius to be the most insufferable carachter in spy fiction, ever, a person I really did not care about. Not so in this finely crafted story, taking Alec an the reader into the darkest part of the secret war between the Spanish state and the Basque seperatists. Prepare to be hoodwinked when it comes to loyalties and the question of who is spying on whom...
Alec Milius, the most unlikely and rather unlikeable ‘hero’ of A Spy by Nature is back in this tense spydeama set in the murky conflicts of the Basque province. Here Cumming really comes into his own as a writer of spy fiction. I’m not bothering to do the name dropping game. Cumming stand well on his own two feet.Just read this book!
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