Charles Cumming wins the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Charles Cumming has won this year’s CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, awarded by the Crime Writers Association for the year’s best thriller in the vein of Ian Fleming. His A Foreign Country beat off competition from Megan Abbott, Robert Harris and Neal Stephenson. The judges said that this contemporary spy thriller had “… a gripping premise, expertly sustained, lots of believable spycraft and memorable supporting characters.”