A Game of Spies - Hardcover

Altman, John

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ISBN 10: 039914837X ISBN 13: 9780399148378

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2002

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Set in 1940 England, a gripping thriller follows a young sleeper agent named Eva Bernhardt, who has a crucial piece of information and is on the run from the Germans and other enemies, as she is plunged into a deadly game of ruse and counter-ruse, where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. 30,000 first printing.

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About the Author:

Born in 1969, John Altman is a musician and a freelance writer. A member of an extended family of writers, he is currently at work on his next novel.

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The game of spies was one the British played exceedingly well during World War II, and their successes have generated a vast literature. This novel posits that a British espionage coup was ignored by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1940, thus allowing the German blitzkrieg to overrun the Low Countries and France in just six weeks. Most of the book is about the flight of two people from the Nazis. One is Hobbs, a British operative with a dubious reputation as a con man and opportunist. The other is Eva Bernhardt, a young German woman "recruited" by Hobbs. Hobbs is inserted into Germany to extract Eva after she obtains information about the Germans' thrust into the west. Chasing these two are Hagen and Frick, smart and relentless officers in the Gestapo's intelligence unit. It's spy versus spy, agent and double agent, double cross and triple cross. It's taut and lean and filled with action, yet author Altman still finds room for insightful reflections on the motives, morals, and misgivings of all the primary characters. A first-rate military thriller. Thomas Gaughan
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