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Berlin scam reunites former MI6 agent.

Recommended for fans of suspenseful historical fiction, where the setting is just as much a character as the people. Then We Take Berlin showcases Lawton's mastery of vividly capturing time and place, with a gritty storyline that keeps the reader on edge until the final page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Then We Take Berlin

Regular price RM33.13 MYR RM14.52 MYR 56% off
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ISBN: 9780802121967
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM71.03 MYR
Authors: John Lawton
Date of Publication: 2013-09-03
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Thriller, Mystery, Espionage, World War II
Goodreads rating: 3.91
(rated by 2146 readers)

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Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, a condition that he thinks excuses him from common morality. Cat burglar, card sharp, and Cockney wide boy, the last thing he wants is to get drafted. But in 1946 he finds himself in the Royal Air Force, facing a stretch in military prison . . . when along comes Lt Colonel Burne-Jones to tell him MI6 has better use for his talents.Posted to occupied Berlin, interrogating ex-Nazis, and burgling the odd apartment for MI6, Wilderness finds himself with time on his hands and the devil making work. He falls in with Frank, a US Army captain, with Eddie, a British artilleryman and with Yuri, a major in the NKVD and together they lift the black market scam to a new level. Coffee never tasted so sweet. And he falls for Nell Breakheart, a German girl who has witnessed the worst that Germany could do and is driven by all the scruples that Wilderness lacks.Fifteen years later, June 1963. Wilderness is free-lance and down on his luck. A gumshoe scraping by on divorce cases. Frank is a big shot on Madison Avenue, cooking up one last Berlin scam . . . for which he needs Wilderness once more. Only now they're not smuggling coffee, they're smuggling people. And Nell? Nell is on the staff of West Berlin's mayor Willy Brandt, planning for the state visit of the most powerful man in the world: "Ich bin ein Berliner!"Then We Take Berlin is a gripping, meticulously researched and richly detailed historical thriller – a moving story of espionage and war, and people caught up in the most tumultuous events of the twenty-first century.
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Berlin scam reunites former MI6 agent.

Recommended for fans of suspenseful historical fiction, where the setting is just as much a character as the people. Then We Take Berlin showcases Lawton's mastery of vividly capturing time and place, with a gritty storyline that keeps the reader on edge until the final page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.