For fans of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY comes this masterclass in suspense about a spy caught up in his own web of deception... Alec Milius is young smart & ambitious
- with a talent for deception. When a chance encounter opens the door to a career with MI6 he is desperate to make his mark. But life as a spy begins to take a terrible toll on himself & those around him & soon Alec is chasing not just success but survival. Forced to work alone he spins a web of deceit that traps him centre stage in a game of global espionage. In this new job the difference between truth & a lie can be a matter of life & death. & for Alec it's getting harder to tell them apart...A Spy By Nature is the bestselling novel with which Charles Cumming announced his arrival as heir apparent to masters like John le Carre & Len Deighton; compellingly told utterly authentic & heart-racingly intense it will grip you till the very last page.