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Highlights
- The award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon brings an exciting richness to the long shadow of evil in this crackling novel of spycraft and international intrigue.
- Author(s): Robert Wilson
- 496 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Thrillers
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About the Book
Award-winning novelist Robert Wilson transcends the genre of spy novels in this thrilling page-turner that also an imaginative and affecting tale of romance which begins in Portugal during World War II. A "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of the Year.Book Synopsis
The award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon brings an exciting richness to the long shadow of evil in this crackling novel of spycraft and international intrigue.
Lisbon, 1944:Andrea Aspinall, plucked out of academia by British intelligence so that her mathematical knowledge might help in the hunt for atomic secrets, disappears under a new identity in Lisbon, where such secrets are easily bought and sold.
Karl Voss, already experienced in the illusions of intrigue when he arrives in Lisbon, is an attache at the German Legation, though he is secretly working against the Nazis to rescue Germany from annihilation. After a night of terrible violence, Andrea creates a family for herself from Voss's memory and the clandestine world they knew. In Portugal, in England, and in the chilly world of Cold War Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets aren't held by governments-and that death is a relative term. In The Company of Strangers, Robert Wilson takes the chilling irony of "secret intelligence" to a new and more poignant human level, as he shows that the heart is both more knowing and more secretive than the mind.
Review Quotes
PRAISE FOR THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
"[The Company of Strangers] is streets ahead of most other thrillers."-The Times (London)
Winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel "Robert Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon turns a local murder case into a taut international thriller . . . with considerable, nailbaiting skill."-Time "A tour de force."-Los Angeles Times "Historically sprawling, richly distilled thriller . . . The whole is a suspenseful, intricately plotted, violent and steamy tale. You will turn the last page of this compelling novel out of breath."-The New York Times
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Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 496
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Thrillers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Theme: Espionage
Format: Paperback
Author: Robert Wilson
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2002
TCIN: 85745911
UPC: 9780156027106
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-3043
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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