Join top spy novelist Charles Cumming at the launch for his new book ‘Icarus 17’, at Daunt Books in Marylebone. Followed by an intimate dinner at Fischers, where the author will regale you with stories of spycraft and his experiences of MI6.

Ticket includes access to the book launch, and a three course dinner at Fischers. The dinner will be very intimate: only six people. An event not to be missed.

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. Shortly after university, he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), an experience that inspired his first novel, A Spy by Nature. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including A Foreign Country which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year. He worked on Sky’s acclaimed drama The Day of the Jackal and was the screenwriter of the Gerard Butler movie Plane. He lives in London.