David Downing
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous...
Author
Series
Jack McColl novels volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Spring 1915. As the Great War burns its way across Europe, Jack McColl, a spy for His Majesty's Navy, is stationed in India, charged with defending the Empire against Bengali terrorists and their German allies. In England, meanwhile, suffragette journalist Caitlin Hanley begins the business of rebuilding her life after the execution of her brother, an Irish republican sympathizer whose plot Jack McColl--Caitlin's ex-lover--had foiled. The war is...
Author
Series
John Russell series volume 6
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties -- a paradise for spies. As spring unfolds, a Western withdrawal appears increasingly likely. Berlin's German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviet forces who occupy half the city, and whose...