Dugald Bruce Lockhart

And he goes through the production.

The first sort of third of the book is about him trying to second guess his competitors.

all the different kinds of people around him to try and secure a place.

And he doesn't get in.

Again, I don't want to give too much away.

He doesn't get in, but he gets a call saying, listen, you didn't get in, but could you help us with this one thing?

It won't take much.

And you can imagine where it goes.

And he's asked to basically spy.

And he's effectively taken his mission is to spy on an oil producing firm and

who have a pair of CIA agents working for them.

He has to befriend them and then try and mis-sell them secrets.

It was the relationship between the first person, the narrator and the reader that I found just so enthralling.

He would say one thing to a character and then he'd write something else, what he was really thinking.

And the speed and dexterity between what he said and what he was thinking was just so dynamic and brutal and at times very in your face and bold and risky, but completely true.

So yes, Charles Cumming, spy thriller.

I recommend it to everyone.

Thank you very much indeed.