Charles Cumming

Charles Cumming is a British author of spy fiction novels. He attended Eton College and graduated with 1st Class Honours in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Charles has been compared to as the next coming of great spy fiction authors such as John le Carre and Len Deighton by The Observer . In 1995, Cumming was recruited by MI6, which is what he based his debut novel A Spy by Nature (featuring the character Alec Milius) on. Since 2001, Charles has lived in Madrid, Spain.