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eBook details
- Title: Then We Take Berlin
- Author : John Lawton
- Release Date : January 03, 2013
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4077 KB
Description
āA stylish spy thrillerā of postwar Berlināthe first in a thrilling new series from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Troy Novels (TheNew York Times Book Review).
John Wilfrid Holdernessāaka Joe Wildernessāwas a young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz before he started crisscrossing war-torn Europe as an MI6 agent. With the war over, heās become a āfree-agent gumshoeā weathering Cold War fears and hard-luck times. But now heās being drawn back into the secret ops business when an ex-CIA agent asks him to spearhead one last venture: smuggle a vulnerable woman out of East Berlin.
Arriving in Germany, Wilderness soon discovers heās being played as a pawn in a deadly game of atomic proportions. To survive, he must follow a serpentine trail through his own past, into the confidence of an unexpected lover, and go dangerously deep into a black market scam the likes of which Berlin has never seen.
The author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy Novels, āLawtonās gift for atmosphere, memorable characters and intelligent plotting has been compared to John le CarrĆ©. . . . Never mind the comparisonsāLawton can stand up on his own, and Then We Take Berlin is a gemā (The Seattle Times).
ā[The Joe Wilderness novels] are meticulously researched, tautly plotted, historical thrillers in the mold of . . . Alan Furst, Phillip Kerr, Eric Ambler, David Downing and Joseph Kanon.ā āThe Wall Street Journal
ā[It] will thrill readers with an interest in WWII and the early Cold War era.ā āPublishers Weekly, starred review
āA wonderfully complex and nuanced thriller.ā āKirkus Reviews