A Foreign Country: From the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author, a compelling spy action crime thriller you won’t want to put down: Book 1 (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller)

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Temporary rating: I'm only halfway through, but have been telling myself for 50 pages already "if this doesn't get better soon, I'm outta here. Following a trail that leads him to France and then Tunisia, Kell uncovers a shocking secret and a conspiracy that could have unimaginable repercussions for Britain and its allies. Seis semanas antes de asumir la dirección del MI6 y convertirse en la primera mujer que encabeza uno de los servicios de espionaje más prestigiosos del mundo, Amelia Levene desaparece sin dejar rastro, provocando así la crisis más grave que la institución ha vivido en una década.

Who brutally murdered an old French couple (which I can't even imagine the Iranians doing), just so they could embarrass the head of the British intel service? Now he has to figure out what she is up to and navigate the murky waters of those arrayed against her before they not only ruin her career but hinder his own best chance to… come in from the cold. I read Trinity Six which I quite liked but found it a bit cumbersome this novel already seems much lighter on its feet and just as interesting. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. I am bothered only by one detail toward the end that contributed to the conclusion, but I'll continue to think on that point.This was a strange book with a slow, pedestrian start and story that suddenly turned into a reasonable spy novel with a nice twist. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different - and the consequences worse than anyone imagines. And Amelia, now the new head of MI6, the British intelligence service, has gone missing during a sudden trip to the South of France. It may reflect the great divide of the pond in storytelling even if the UK and US are much closer than people know in other ways. Considering the body counts, I thought it rather droll that Kell is supposedly in a quiver over waterboarding!

Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival.DISCLAIMER: These example sentences appear in various news sources and books to reflect the usage of the word ‘foreign country'. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. How many times will I have to read books that are touted to be written by "the successor to John Le Carre", and find myself disappointed?