Tightrope
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781590517239 (1590517237)
ASIN: 1590517237
Publish date: 2015-11-03
Publisher: Other Press
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
We called World War I the war to end all wars. World War II claimed even more lives and still haunts us. One would think that we’d have had enough of war. The protagonist of Simon Mawer’s historical thriller, Tightrope, certainly thought so. It frustrates and terrifies Marian Sutro to find that, aft...
Tightrope, Simon Mawer, author; Kate Reading, narrator In Simon Mawer’s first book about Marian Sutro, “Trapeze”, she was one of 40 young British girls enlisted to help in the war effort, working in enemy territory for the SOE (Special Operations Executive). She was flown into France where she parac...
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