Perfect for fans of John le Carrรฉ, a gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from โthe master of the modern spy thrillerโ (Mail on Sunday)
Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for the book that could solve all his career problems. But the story of a lifetime becomes an obsession that could kill him.
When his source is found dead, Gaddis is alone on the trail of the Cold Warโs deadliest secret: the undiscovered sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring.
Suddenly threatened at every step and caught between two beautiful women, both with access to crucial evidence, Sam cannot trust anyone.
To get his life back, he must chase shadows through Europeโs corridors of power. But the bigger the lie, the more ruthlessly the truth is kept buried...
Praise for The Trinity SixโIn the first rank of the new generation of espionage writersโ The Times
โAn utterly absorbing and compelling novel. A brilliant re-imagining of events surrounding the notorious Cambridge spy-ringโ William Boyd, bestselling author of Restless
โClassy ... an assured and richly enjoyable thrillerโ Sunday Times
โDelicate and supremely controlled, this is a spy story to be savoured, not rushedโ Daily Mail
โNone of the new generation of spy writers lives up to the standard set by Deighton, Forsyth and Le Carrรฉ. Enter Cumming, a long-awaited light at the end of a very long tunnel ... As good as Le Carrรฉ โ praise indeedโ Guardian
Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He has been described as โthe man who most successfully gets under the skin of Britainโs intelligence agenciesโ (The Times). In the summer of 1995, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6, and A Spy By Nature was published in the UK in 2001. The Trinity Six is his fifth novel.