Charles Cumming

A Foreign Country


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      CHARLES CUMMING

       A Foreign Country

      Copyright

       Harper

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      First Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

      Copyright © Charles Cumming 2012

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Cover photographs © Josephine Pugh/Arcangel Images (cityscape); Henry Steadman (foreground and figure, right); SuperStock (bench, seated man); Shutterstock.com (all other images)

      A Colder War extract © Charles Cumming 2013

      Charles Cumming asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      Extract from The Spirit Level copyright © Seamus Heaney

      Published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber 2001

      Reproduced by permission of Faber and Faber

      Extract from The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley © 1953 Hamish Hamilton reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd

      Extract from Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham © 1928 William Heinemann reproduced by kind permission of A P Watt on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © March 2012 ISBN: 9780007346448

      Version: 2016-05-03

      Dedication

      For Carolyn Hanbury

      Epigraph

      ‘There’s just one thing I think you ought to know before you take on this job … If you do well you’ll get no thanks and if you get into trouble you’ll get no help. Does that suit you?’

      ‘Perfectly.’

      ‘Then I’ll wish you good afternoon.’

      W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

      ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’

      L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Tunisia, 1978

       Chapter 1

       The Present Day

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28