A spy who’d rather be anywhere else. When a weary ad man stumbles into the shadowy world of espionage, he discovers that giving up cigarettes isn’t the only thing he’ll struggle to quit. Between secret agents, double-crosses, and a trail of chaos that follows him across Europe, his “ordinary life” is gone for good. Desmond Skirrow’s I’m Trying to Give It Up is a sharp, comic thriller that skewers both the spy game and the modern man’s attempt to escape his own vices.