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Title details for The Hidden Man by Charles Cumming - Available

The Hidden Man

A Novel

by Charles Cumming
James Langton
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From bestseller Charles Cumming, The Hidden Man is a tale of secrets as brothers seeking justice for their murdered father learn of his past life as a spy.
Christopher Keen, once a master spy, is murdered in cold blood. His sons Mark and Benjamin, though they hadn't seen their father for over twenty years, are now drawn into the legacy of his life as a spy as they set out to discover the truth and avenge their father's death.
But as their search proceeds, more questions arise—is Christopher's death connected to his past life in MI6? Was his eldest son involved in a conspiracy that links him to Moscow, Afghanistan, and the Russian mafia? Bestselling author Charles Cumming delivers in The Hidden Man a thriller that delves into the complicated double lives of spies, and what happens when their half-told secrets die with them.

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  • Release date

    November 10, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781427264619
      • File size: 273063 KB
      • Duration: 09:28:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Tim Goodman does a fine job with this story of Cold War espionage set in England. After an absence of twenty years, two brothers find their father on their doorstep. He tells them that he has been in British Intelligence; soon thereafter he is murdered. Tim Goodman offers an interesting, well-paced reading. He's good at conveying the characters' emotions without going over the top. He is as comfortable with women's voices as he is with men's. In conversations you always know who is speaking. R.E.K. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 28, 2015
      First published in the U.K. in 2003, bestseller Cumming’s enjoyable second novel falls short of the high standard of his later spy thrillers such as 2012’s A Foreign Country. MI5 agent Stephen Taploe is investigating Russian mobster Viktor Kukushkin, who he suspects is laundering crime syndicate money through Libra,
      a popular London nightclub. Mark Keen, a manager at Libra, seems unaware of the money laundering. Mark is the oldest son of Christopher Keen, who worked for more than 20 years as an MI6 agent and is now employed by the security company Divisar Corporate Intelligence. Because Christopher abandoned his wife and family years before, another son, Ben, hates his father. But after Christopher is killed, Ben and Mark get pulled into the world of international espionage while searching for their father’s murderer. Cummings fans should be prepared for a rushed ending and a cast of characters who are almost uniformly unlikable. Agent: Luke Janklow, Janklow & Nesbit.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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