The Trinity Six

Resumen del libro

The most closely-guarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed -- the identity of a SIXTH member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. And people are killing for it! London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a London hospital.

An obituary describes him only as a 'resourceful career diplomat'. But Crane was much more than that -- and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from what they seem. Fifteen years later, academic Sam Gaddis needs money.

When a journalist friend asks for his help researching a sixth member of the notorious Trinity spy ring, Gaddis knows that she's onto a story that could turn his fortunes around. But within hours the journalist is dead, apparently from a heart attack. Taking over her investigation, Gaddis trails a man who claims to know the truth about Edward Crane.

Europe still echoes with decades of deadly disinformation on both sides of the Iron Curtain. And as Gaddis follows a series of leads across the continent, he approaches a shocking revelation -- one which will rock the foundations of politics from London to Moscow!

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.