Cf.le site officiel de l'auteur à http://www.charlescumming.co.uk/biography.htm : "In the summer of 1995, Charles was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)"
«On graduation from university, Charles Cumming was talent-spotted by the intelligence services, and spent six months in the MI6 selection process, an experience fictionalised in his well-received debut, A Spy By Nature» écrit Andrew Martin pour le Daily Telegraph: http://www.charlescumming.co.uk/THMr.htm Lire aussi sur ce sujet l'entretien accordé par Charles Cumming à Gillian Harris du Times: «Six months later, Cumming came to the conclusion that the spy life was not for him. “As the application process progressed, I realised it was not as exciting as it is made out to be. It would be very tough, very demanding and stressful. It would have been very hard on marriage and family life. I wasn’t suited for it and I think SIS came to the same conclusion.”» http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6689074.ece?
«The Spanish Game [...] It's a novel about paranoia, about exile and lies, the middle part of a planned trilogy of Milius books, the last of which will be set in the United States» http://www.charlescumming.co.uk/THMa.htm
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«On graduation from university, Charles Cumming was talent-spotted by the intelligence services, and spent six months in the MI6 selection process, an experience fictionalised in his well-received debut, A Spy By Nature» écrit Andrew Martin pour le Daily Telegraph: http://www.charlescumming.co.uk/THMr.htm Lire aussi sur ce sujet l'entretien accordé par Charles Cumming à Gillian Harris du Times: «Six months later, Cumming came to the conclusion that the spy life was not for him. “As the application process progressed, I realised it was not as exciting as it is made out to be. It would be very tough, very demanding and stressful. It would have been very hard on marriage and family life. I wasn’t suited for it and I think SIS came to the same conclusion.”» http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6689074.ece?
