293. Charles Cumming - A Colder War

Marketed (a bit) as the new John Le Carré, I thought perhaps it was at first, but it is actually quite derivative (of Le Carré).

The plot begins with a lot of characters and complexity, but as this dwindled into a story with mainly one central figure and a villain identified too early in the plot, it became a very conventional ‘will they catch him or won’t they’.

I would probably read another one, but on an aeroplane or as a deliberate break from better quality but more challenging books.

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