Blogs in September 2017

Munich 14th September 2017

September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain’s...

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Chimney Fire 11th June 2016

American Rudy Steinberg is visited by a banker from Munich and told he has received an inheritance from his German father, Lothur Von Heinden. Problem is, Rudy was raised to believe that his father was Moses Steinberg, a Jew....

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Spoils of Victory 23rd April 2016

From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring U.S. Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany. When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home...

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Munich Airport 20th April 2014

An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man’s sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her...

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Absolute Friends 1st January 1970

In previous novels, le Carré has delighted in taking us on a mystery tour. This time, the mystery is located in character more than plot. The absolute friends of the title are Ted Mundy and his East German friend,...

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