For a writer with Grayand Grey Morality taste, Cumming sure lets his character have some brilliant moments. Spoiler alert!
- Nothing can beat the ending of The Spanish Game. After all the trouble he's been through, all the paranoia he's suffered from living outside his country for seven years with no one to trust, after the twist in the penultimate chapter, Alec Milius finally gets his victory.I walk toward the embassy and step onto the British soil for the first time in years.
A British diplomat (offering a hand to shake): And you said your name is Alec Milius?
Milius: Alec Milius, yes.
It is a sort of homecoming.
