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KENNEDY 35

Box 88, Book 3

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Charles Cumming’s gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88

Waterstones Best Espionage Thriller of the Year

Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

Financial Times Thriller of the Year

The location: West Africa

The player: 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite

The target: A war criminal on the run

The objective: Kill or capture

Kite’s mission should be straightforward, but it soon turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse along the beaches and backstreets of Senegal.

Now, nearly thirty years later, it seems the game isn’t over.

And unless Kite can turn the tables on his pursuers, the inner workings of the secret state could be exposed…

Praise for KENNEDY 35

'A bold choice of setting, which adds skilful dabs of colour to a tightly wrought tale' The Times

‘A compelling exploration of the consequences of realpolitik and the intermingling of the personal with the political’ Guardian

‘Cumming marshals his twin time frames expertly and illuminates an awful chapter in recent history. A first-rate spy thriller’ Mail on Sunday

‘Atmospheric and packed with threat, it thrills on every single page’ Daily Mail

‘An enthralling, haunting work…taking the spy thriller to a new level of storytelling’ Financial Times

‘A compelling depiction of the various layers of infamy involved in an appalling blot on the history of humanity’ Literary Review

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Not Cummings best in my opinion - but a good spy yarn nevertheless. Plenty of loose ends left for another in series.

More spying adventures

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Can’t wait for the fourth! Would be great if they settled on a narrator. But a great book love the Senegal parts

Best of the three!

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Nicholas Boulton has become one of my favourite narrators. His tone is neutral, warm and engaging. Character portrayal especially in this book is in my opinion excellent. Accents are believable, as is his pronunciation of non-English words. There is nothing to dislike.

Excellent narration of a fine book

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Great story in the series of Loughlan Kite . I would say Charles Cummings is somewhat obsessed with material goods like Audemars Piguet watches etc . I found this rather unnecessary tbh that aside which is a very minor criticism it was excellent.

Great Spy Novel

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Unlike the first two books in the series, Kennedy 35 lacks the paranoia and sense of being ill at ease operating undercover - the feature that usually most distinguishes the author's' writing.

There are also almost too many uninteresting disposable characters here - actually became quite hard to follow who was who at one point - not helped by absence of pauses between short scene swaps (production issue).

So a bit generic and bland, perhaps a bit rushed even - but still a fun instalment, looking forward to the next one - hope the quality of the first two will return.

The narrator is once again superb - there appears to be no limit to his ramge.

A bit disappointing, but a solid third instalment

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