Romeo Summer (Severn House Large Print) - Hardcover

Savarin, Julian Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727875906 ISBN 13: 9780727875907

Publisher: Severn House, 2007

Synopsis

Featuring Mller and Pappenheim, heroes of A Cold Rain in BerlinA deadly new adventure for the unconventional Mller and his streetwise sidekick Pappenheim. A network of snipers, highly skilled professional killers, has been murdering apparently unconnected victims. As hidden agendas proliferate around him, Mller must play a deadly game of hunter and hunted through an invisible network that is all around him.

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Savarin was educated in Britain and took a degree in history before serving in the Royal Air Force.

From Publishers Weekly

Despite reports of its imminent demise, the East-West spy thriller appears to be alive and flourishing-as shown in this slick, engaging and allusive second entry in Savarin's Muller and Pappenheim series (A Cold Rain in Berlin) about a contemporary pair of German detectives. The veteran British author's heroes are top cop Muller, with money of his own and a lavish lifestyle, and his tough and resourceful working-class assistant, Pappenheim. The team recalls Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, not to mention John Sanford's Lucas Davenport series, but Savarin manages to make both of his protagonists fresh and interesting. Their blustery superior officer, Kaltendorf ( "the Great White Shark"), who loathes Muller for his membership in the "faded aristocracy" and distrusts them both for their maverick ways, is also a spy thriller cliche, but Savarin uses him to considerable comic effect. And Savarin's plot line-the sudden killing off of a band of former East German "Romeos," secret agents with informant wives in the West as well as the East-has familiar overtones as well, harkening to Walter Wager's classic Telefon. But again, like a skilled chef working with tried and true ingredients, Savarin manages to whip up a book and a series that can best be described as wholesome comfort food for readers longing for the good old days.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0727875906
• ISBN 13: 9780727875907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 427