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Cumming, Charles | BOX 88 | Signed First Edition Book


 
BOX 88 by Charles Cumming
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First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee. January 2022 NY: Mysterious Press ISBN 9781613162736
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BOX 88 by Charles Cumming - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK

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A secret agent comes of age―and reckons with the legacy of his first mission―in this thriller by New York Times-bestseller Charles Cumming, “the best of the new generation of British spy writers” (The Observer)

Lachlan Kite is a member of BOX 88, an elite transatlantic black ops outfit so covert that not even MI6 and the CIA are certain of its existence ― but even the best spy can’t anticipate every potential threat in a world where dangerous actors lurk around every corner. At the funeral of his childhood best friend, Lachlan falls into a trap that drops him into the hands of a potentially deadly interrogation, with his pregnant wife, also abducted, being held as collateral for the information he’s sworn on his own life to protect.

Thirty years earlier Lachlan, then just out of the upper class boarding school where he was reared, was BOX 88’s newest recruit. In the haze of a gap year summer, in which the study of spycraft was intertwined with a journey of self-discovery, he cut his teeth on a special assignment on the coast of France, where a friendship allowed him special access to one of Iran’s most dangerous men. Today, Lachlan’s nostalgia for the trip is corrupted by recollection of the deceit that accompanied it but, in order to save his family, he’ll be forced to revisit those painful memories one last time.

A pulse-pounding narrative that straddles two eras ― 1989 and 2020 ― BOX 88 is a “wonderfully taut, exciting and up-to-date spy thriller” that introduces a compelling new character and a captivating international storyline (Spectator, Books of the Year).
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5 of 5 Espionage op from the past haunts the present February 20, 2022
Reviewer: Stephen from Hawthorne, CA United States  
Lachlan Kite is recruited by a secretive US-UK intelligence agency known only as "Box 88" to spy on a fellow guest spending the summer at the French country home of a wealthy school friend.
Kite agrees when he understands that the guest m-a-y have been the mastermind of the explosion of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie and might be planning more / bigger.
Despite lingering concerns about the consequences of his actions to friends and strangers, espionage and covert action become his calling.
Years later, at the funeral of his wealthy friend, Kite discovers that he is pursued by friends (MI-5 is investigating seemingly unapproved actions of Box 88) and enemies (a foreign agent seeking vengeance for a tragic outcome of that fateful summer).
Cumming’s novels capture the shifting moral-ethical ground of espionage and earn comparison to Le Carre.
Cumming is an easier read.
Very highly recommended!


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