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“When I was 25 I was approached for a job by MI6. The experience that I had – which was brief but extremely interesting – was crying out to be dramatised. I had always wanted to write a novel, but up to that point I didn’t have a subject, I didn’t have a story. Suddenly I had this thing fall into my lap. The first third of that first book, A Spy By Nature, is more or less an autobiographical account of what happened to me…I wrote A Spy By Nature because I was thinking about what would happen to me if I had done that job. What effect would it have had on my relationships with my girlfriend, with my family, my friends? I would have gone into a parallel life, a pretty complicated and difficult to manage parallel life.” Read more...
Charles Cumming, Novelist
