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The woman tabbed to head MI6 is the target of an operation designed to discredit her and scotch her appointment; a disgraced officer unfairly tarred by association with dirty business in Afghanistan is brought in from the cold to save the day. The attack is mounted by-- wait for it-- rogue French agents! They are still peeved about some inter-agency sparring during the run-up to the Iraq war. Lots of tradecraft in this one, more tradecraft than drama in fact. Cummings has the mix of high-tech co
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The start was exciting, the writing was excellent, the execution was more than satisfying, but the wrapping-up did not fullfill the promises made earlier in the book. But I will undoubtly read another Cummings book when I come across one...
PostScript : When i first read this, I had no inkling it was going to be the first volume of a trilogy. I lot of the things i felt were just left hanging to dry, were well taken care of in the following books.
PostScript : When i first read this, I had no inkling it was going to be the first volume of a trilogy. I lot of the things i felt were just left hanging to dry, were well taken care of in the following books.
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