Jumia Books THE HIDDEN MAN

The Hidden Man is a smooth and flowingly written book populated by believable, distinctive characters. But where A Spy By Nature is a mostly focused, first-person narrative telling one person’s story, The Hidden Man is a much different animal. Told in third-person omniscient, the story ricochets in and out of its cast’s viewpoints, telling a broader, more complicated tale and splitting its focus between a complex spy plot and an intricate web of family relationship dramas. clearly enjoys drawing parallels between the life of the spy and the lives of “regular people,” and he works that theme very well again here, as  bleeds  day-to-day realities of his well-drawn characters. And of course there’s plenty of classic tradecraft, mystery, and adventure to be had, as the British secret world collides with international commerce, the Russian crime scene, and dredged up memories of western intelligence work in 1980s Afghanistan.