What do the murder of an elderly couple on vacation in Egypt, the kidnapping of a young man in Paris and the disappearance of the woman who has just been appointed the first female chief of Britain's MI6 have in common? They're all threads to be untangled in Charles Cumming's upcoming book A Foreign Country (#187). And the person MI6 chooses for this delicate mission is Thomas Kell, currently enduring a miserable forced retirement after being forced out by his bosses there.
I received an Advance Readers' Copy of A Foreign Country s a GoodReads First Reads giveaway. Neither my husband nor I were disappointed in this thriller. Kell isn't at all sure that he wants to be involved in doing a favor for the agency that gave him the boot, but he's worked closely with Amelia Levene, the missing agent, and let's face it, life has been dull since he left MI6. Kell manages to find Amelia, but along with her he also discovers a deeply buried secret.
Although lives are definitely at stake in A Foreign Country the focus here is on the mental games being played out, not the body count. A puzzle for Kell, and one for the reader as well, with a satisfying conclusion. An excellent addition for your summer reading bookshelf.
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