Charles Cumming

Sunday Times and NYT bestselling author of BOX88, JUDAS62, KENNEDY35 & ICARUS17. Screenwriter Plane & Day of the Jackal @charlescummingbooks Rep: Janklow&Nesbit

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

Had a lot of fun putting this together. With heartfelt thanks to @lewis_damian @holland_tom @sixteenthCgirl @guywalters @RealTomHutch @HarperCollinsUK @MysteriousPress @HarperFiction You can order a copy of ICARUS 17 here: https://t.co/6OjCdjm1Te

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

This is Russia, every day. This is what many Western leaders want to do business with, to bring back into the community of civilized nations at the negotiating table or in Olympic stadiums, this level of murderous evil. No. It must be defeated or we all lose.

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Last night, Russia attacked a European capital with over 40 ballistic missiles.
That leads nowhere in European news headlines this morning.
Russian terror, murder and destruction are simply taken in stride as a normal story.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

YOU DON'T SAY.

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

Thank you Damian

[Damian Beeley @DamianBeeley]

Just finished this. Absolutely fantastic. I couldn’t recommend it more highly. But if it’s your first, I urge you to read the preceding Box 88 books before this. The series is gripping, and no whiff of fantasy. Please keep ‘em coming @CharlesCumming

[Stewart Flaherty @stewartflaherty]

This clip is from before the tournament by the way, @GNev2 nailed it.

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

@JackCuthbert No discernible sense of humour.

[I.S. Berry | THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW @isberryauthor]

Hello, London! One of my fave cities. First time in the UK since my book came out & it's so lovely to see THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW on so many @Waterstones tables. Signed copies at @WaterstonesPicc & @WaterstonesCovG. #spy #spynovel #waterstones

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

And another good review in The Mail on Sunday…

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

Great review for ICARUS 17 in @TheSun

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

“Back, and to the left”

[Spybrary @spybrary]

Which one are you picking? I do wish bookshops would have a spy section rather than lumping us in with crime or mystery or thriller but got to give credit to Waterstones who do curate spy book tables in many of their shops.

Why not pop along to @WaterstonesPicc Waterstones Piccadilly, pick up an exclusive Spybrary bookmark and buy a book or five!

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

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[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

@guywalters 👏👏

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🇺🇦♠️♥️♣️♦️

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

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[James Holland @James1940]

Massive megalomaniac - tick. Use of us and them as a rallying call - tick. Brilliant use of media to further their cause - tick. Total lack of geo-political understanding - tick. Belief in genius and right about everything - tick. Lack of interest in any human being apart from themselves - tick. No understanding that the enemy has a vote in any war - tick. Making the population they govern poorer - tick. Surrounded by sycophants - tick.

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

@WarGit Met your sister the other day. Er, that’s it. Hope all well.

[Charles Cumming @CharlesCumming]

This is wonderful

[Richard E. Ptardio @RichardPtardio]

I’ve always thought the English and the Argentinians have far more in common than either side likes to admit.

Back in the late 1990s, I was sent to Buenos Aires for a few months to advise a bank.

The city was booming. The dollar-peso peg was still in place, the restaurants were full and everyone appeared to be spending money they assumed would remain valuable.

Although, as so often is the case in Argentina, economic disaster was waiting politely around the corner.

I had been put up alone in an enormous mock-Tudor house in the suburbs.

Each morning, I commuted into the city, offered my wisdom and returned home in time for a solitary glass of Malbec.

On the third evening, there was a knock at the door.

Half the neighbourhood had arrived, carrying meat and wine.

Within minutes, they had occupied the garden, lit a fire and begun cooking what remains one of the finest meals I have ever eaten.

From that point, I didn't eat alone for the rest of my stay.

Before long, I was known affectionately as "el inglés", and the entire street had begun interfering in my personal life.

I was set up on dates, lectured on the inadequacies of English football and, within a fortnight, persuaded to begin psychoanalysis.

That is Argentina. You arrive as a guest and very quickly find yourself with a nickname, being fed, contradicted and treated like family.

We share with them a self-deprecating humour and a wistful fondness for some grander, half-remembered past.

I have ever since admired the Argentinians for possessing something we British always struggle with.

The emotional courage to say what we really think.

[Ronald Brent @bren45376]

ICYMI, here are John Dugdale's reviews in the Sunday Times @thetimes roundup of July Thrillers with Pick of the Month 'Icarus 17' by @CharlesCumming and also 'The Kill Switch' by @Peston, 'It could have been her' by @lisajewelluk and 'Buyer Beware' by Catherine Ryan Howard

[Sid Lowe @sidlowe]

Weird thing happened yesterday. I saw a motorcade and the Spain team bus go past….from the sixth floor book depositary window where Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Keep in mind that Trump‘s persistent delusion and propaganda that 2020 was stolen is essential pretext to his attempting to interfere in the midterms and 2028. He’s been laying that ground since the day he was reelected. Wake up.