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Alec Milius

Cette série plonge les lecteurs dans le monde trouble de l'espionnage industriel à travers les yeux d'un jeune diplômé brillant mais sans but. Après avoir échoué à intégrer les services de renseignement britanniques, il se retrouve empêtré dans le monde dangereux de l'espionnage d'entreprise pour une grande compagnie pétrolière. Il navigue dans un paysage traître de secrets, de mensonges et de manipulations, où les informations à enjeux élevés ont un prix potentiellement mortel. C'est une exploration palpitante de l'intersection moralement ambiguë entre les affaires mondiales et les opérations clandestines.

The Spanish game
A Spy by Nature

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  1. A Spy by Nature

    • 464pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    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 and 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 and those around him, and 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 and a lie can be a matter of life and death. And 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 Carré and Len Deighton; compellingly told, utterly authentic and heart-racingly intense, it will grip you till the very last page.

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  2. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation, Milius has slowly rebuilt his life in Madrid. But he still has fatal weakness for deception and secrets, and it's an urge he is about to scratch when a prominent Spanish politician disappears in suspicious circumstances.

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