A Spy Alone
by Charles Beaumont
A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont is a really fun spy novel by a British ex-spy. Particularly if you know people who like to gossip about Britain’s intelligence services, parts of the story told in the book won’t come as a complete surprise, but it’s told with panache and humour. You’re left with a lingering sense of unease that fact and fiction are closer together than you’d like them to be.
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“A Spy Alone is a debut novel by Charles Beaumont (not his real name), an ex-MI6 operative…The main protagonist is an ex-spy, who has left the service and is down on his luck a bit, financially. There’s a lot of tradecraft. The detailed descriptions of spy techniques provide an educational aspect to the reading experience…The political among us will be trying to guess who the characters in the book are based on. I don’t want to say their names because I don’t want to get sued and I don’t want to ruin the book, but it’s fun trying to guess who everyone in the Oxford Spy ring could be.” Read more...
