Anthony Quinn: Our friends in Berlin, 9781787330986, trade paperback, Jonathan Cape (Penguin Random House UK) July 2018
Anthony Quinn’s very atmospheric spy thriller opens in war torn London in 1941, giving it a graphic description of what it must have been like to live in London during the Blitz. According to the publisher, the book was inspired by real life events. It was a well kept secret after the war that England had quite a number of Nazi sympathizers, some quite famous.
This book makes excellent holiday, escapist reading with a very believable ending and a sophisticated writing style.
Amy Strallen works in a marriage bureau when she is approached by Jack Hoste. While she believes he is trying to find a suitable marriage candidate thru her bureau despite his odd behavior, his motives are absolutely different. Amy is the only connection to Marita, a Nazi sympathizer who has gone into hiding and is crucial to Jack’s work. He has been recruited by MI5 to infiltrate a group of British Nazi supporters who are feeding dangerous information to Berlin.
When his contact to Amy succeeds leading him to headstrong Marita, a tight plot full of deception and unexpected events kept me turning the pages rather quickly particularly in the second half of the book.
This book makes excellent holiday, escapist reading with a very believable ending and a sophisticated writing style.
Amy Strallen works in a marriage bureau when she is approached by Jack Hoste. While she believes he is trying to find a suitable marriage candidate thru her bureau despite his odd behavior, his motives are absolutely different. Amy is the only connection to Marita, a Nazi sympathizer who has gone into hiding and is crucial to Jack’s work. He has been recruited by MI5 to infiltrate a group of British Nazi supporters who are feeding dangerous information to Berlin.
When his contact to Amy succeeds leading him to headstrong Marita, a tight plot full of deception and unexpected events kept me turning the pages rather quickly particularly in the second half of the book.
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