Tightrope
Simon Mawer
An historical thriller
that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces
her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where
the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties
As Allied forces
close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the
wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last
known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a
handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has
withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of
Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England
she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian
searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family
and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by
the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead
to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious
Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges
from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of
the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same
time to find the identity that has never been hers.
A novel of divided loyalties and mixed motives, Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfillment leads her to shocking choices.
that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces
her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where
the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties
As Allied forces
close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the
wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last
known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a
handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has
withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of
Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England
she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian
searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family
and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by
the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead
to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious
Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges
from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of
the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same
time to find the identity that has never been hers.
A novel of divided loyalties and mixed motives, Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfillment leads her to shocking choices.
Година:
2015
Издателство:
Orbit Books
Език:
english
Страници:
416
ISBN 10:
1408706202
ISBN 13:
9781408706206
Серия:
Marian Sutro #2
Файл:
EPUB, 490 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2015
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