Then We Take Berlin
John Lawton,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
John Lawton,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780802121967 (0802121969)
Publish date: September 3rd 2013
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
World War II
This convoluted mix of reality and fiction is essentially a biographical narrative in the life of John Holderness as he transforms himself from an East London burglar to a British intelligence man working under the tutelage of Lieutenant Colonel Burne-Jones. The story opens on the eye of President K...
John Lawton is on my top-5 list of contemporary authors, so I was excited when I heard he had created a new protagonist, John Wilfrid Holderness. That sounds like a posh name, but he's known by most people as Joe Wilderness, which is a much better fit.Joe is a London East End wide boy, a chancer who...
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