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Arctic Sun by Jack Grimwood
5.0
adventurous dark mysterious tense

I like that it takes its Cold War no-good-guys-really setup for granted, and its exploration of a vaguely Bondian grounded super-spy-assassin makes him as profoundly broken as it's possible to get while still actually functioning, but the Brits are so awful in this - why are we on the side of these people, whay are we supposed to be rooting for someone who works for these people? While also getting thrills from the way he kills lots of people? Charlie's lovely, though, the bits with him are great.