A Foreign Country

Resumen del libro

Six weeks before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene vanishes without a trace. Her disappearance is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced for more than a decade. There has been no ransom demand, no word from foreign intelligence services, no hint of a defection. Should news of Levene's disappearance leak out, the consequences would be catastrophic. But for disgraced MI6 officer Thomas Kell, the crisis offers a chance for redemption. He is approached by his former employers and ordered to find her. Kell's search takes him first to France, then North Africa, where he discovers an extraordinary secret hidden deep in Levene's past. It is a secret that could fatally compromise Britain's national security - and for which Kell could pay with his life.

Biografía del autor

Charles Cumming (Ayr, Escocia, 1971) educado en Eton, se graduó en Literatura Inglesa por la Universidad de Edimburgo en 1994. Un año más tarde fue reclutado por MI6, el servicio de inteligencia británico, pero no acabó su periodo de formación y en 1996 se mudó a Montreal. Sus conocimientos sobre el mundo del espionaje le llevaron a escribir su primera obra, A Spy by Nature (2001), a la que siguieron The Hidden Man (2003), The Spanish Game (2006) y Typhoon (2008), con las que se ha convertido merecidamente en uno de los más aclamados escritores de novelas de espionaje. El sexto hombre es una de sus mejores novelas y la primera traducida al castellano.