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The Company of Strangers
by Wilson, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151008469
- ISBN 13
- 9780151008469
- Seller
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Southbury, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . Hardcover. Harcourt, 2001. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Light shelf wear to Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .
Synopsis
The award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon brings an exciting richness to the long shadow of evil in this crackling new novel of spycraft and international intrigue. Lisbon, 1944: Andrea Aspinall, plucked out of academia by British intelligence so that her mathematical knowledge might help in the hunt for atomic secrets, disappears under a new identity in Lisbon, where such secrets are easily bought and sold. Karl Voss, already experienced in the illusions of intrigue when he arrives in Lisbon, is an attache at the German Legation, though he is secretly working against the Nazis to rescue Germany from annihilation. After a night of terrible violence, Andrea creates a family for herself from Voss's memory and the clandestine world they knew. In Portugal, in England, and in the chilly world of Cold War Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets aren't held by governments-and that death is a relative term. In The Company of Strangers, Robert Wilson takes the chilling irony of "secret intelligence" to a new and more poignant human level, as he shows that the heart is both more knowing and more secretive than the mind.
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- Bookseller
- HousatonicBooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018391
- Title
- The Company of Strangers
- Author
- Wilson, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151008469
- ISBN 13
- 9780151008469
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2001-10-19
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction : World Literature : British;
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