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Charles Cumming is a British writer of spy fiction. He was educated at Eton College (1985-1989) and the University of Edinburgh (1990-1994), where he graduated with First Class Honours in English Literature. The Observer has described him as "the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carré and Len Deighton left off."
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Various interviews with Charles Cumming about The Trinity Six, The Hidden Man, A Spy By Nature and The Spanish Game
Charles Cumming, author of The Trinity Six, discusses The Cambridge Spy Ring
Dominic West speaks with Charles Cumming about The Trinity Six
Charles Cumming talks about his spy novels: The Hidden Man, A Spy By Nature and The Spanish Game
BookBrowse Note: A Spy by Nature was published in the UK in
2001 but not released in the USA until 2007. It's sequel, The Spanish Game was
released in the USA in 2008. The Hidden Man was published in the UK in 2003 but
is not yet released in the US.
What gave you the idea for The Hidden Man?
The Hidden Man began life as a screenplay. Like any self-respecting arts
graduate in his early twenties, I started writing film scripts more or less as
soon as I'd left university. This is about 10 years ago. At the time, it wasn't
really possible to walk down the street without bumping into six or seven people
who were also hoping to make it big in the movie business. (It's like the famous
Peter Cook joke: Two guys are at a party. One says, “I'm working on a novel” and
the other replies, “Neither am I.”) Anyway, I was ...
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