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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2006
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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About the Author

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1973. he has been described as 'the man who most successfully gets under the skin of Britain's intelligence agencies' (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. A foreign Country is his sixth novel.

Full Series List in Order

Alec Milius

The Spanish Game (Feb-2007)
A Spy by Nature (Jul-2007)

Box 88

1 - Box 88 (Oct-2020)
2 - JUDAS 62 (Apr-2022)

Thomas Kell

1 - A Foreign Country (Aug-2012)
2 - A Colder War (Aug-2014)
3 - A Divided Spy (Feb-2017)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • From bestseller Charles Cumming, The Hidden Man is a tale of secrets as brothers seeking justice for their murdered father learn of his past life as a spy. Christopher Keen, once a master spy, is murdered in cold blood. His sons Mark and Benjamin, ...



  • "The best of the new generation of British spy writers taking over where le Carre and Deighton left off." -- Observer (London) on The Spanish Game"The serpentine twists and the unflaggingly realistic suspense leave you breathless, but spellbound." --...



  • This is what they told me a long time ago. Only make contact in the event of an emergency. Only telephone if you believe that your position has been fatally compromised. Under no circumstances are you to approach us unless it is absolutely necessa...



  • Charles Cumming, lauded internationally as the successor to John le Carre, returns with his biggest, most ambitious thriller to date. Beginning in 1997, just as the British are about to re - turn Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a young opera t...



  • The most closely-guarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed -- the identity of a sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. And people are killing for it... London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a L...



  • From the internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Trinity Six, comes a compelling tale of deceit and betrayal, conspiracy and redemption On the vacation of a lifetime in Egypt, an elderly French couple are brutally murd...



  • A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on ...



  • In A DIVIDED SPY, a brilliant novel of modern espionage by New York Times bestselling author Charles Cumming, MI6’s Thomas Kell faces off against a handsome and charismatic Russian double agent. Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A for...



  • 'Recommended. I read it one breathless sitting' Ian Rankin He risked it all to become a spy. Now he must pay the price. A gripping new standalone spy thriller from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and 'the ...






  • In the tradition of Jason Matthews' New York Times bestseller The Kremlin's Candidate comes THE MOROCCAN GIRL, a standalone thriller from Charles Cumming, "the heir to John le Carré" (NPR). Kit Carradine is the successful author of several best-s...



  • One of Parade's Most Anticipated Books of 2022!A secret agent comes of age -- and reckons with the legacy of his first mission -- in this thriller by New York Times-bestseller Charles Cumming, “the best of the new generation of British spy wri...



  • "JUDAS 62 has all you could want from a tense, topical and intelligent spy thriller" -- The Times Books of the YearThirty years after a deadly attempt to extract a Russian scientist to safety in Ukraine, master spy Lachlan Kite eludes an assassi...



  • A Financial Times Best Thriller of 2023Veteran agent Lachlan Kite -- “a spy for the 21st century” (Daily Mail) -- reckons with the fallout from a mission in Senegal carried out early in his career. 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-ye...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Cumming has published 13 books.

Charles Cumming does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, KENNEDY 35, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Charles Cumming, The Hidden Man, was published in March 2006.

Yes. Charles Cumming has 3 series.