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Mann Peter - The Torqued Man A Novel - Paperback
Mann Peter - The Torqued Man A Novel - Paperback
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Description: A damn good read. Alan Furst A brilliant debut novel at once teasing literary thriller and a darkly comic blend of history and invention The Torqued Man is set in wartime Berlin and propelled by two very different but equally mesmerizing voices: a German spy handler and his Irish secret agent neither of whom are quite what they seem. Berlin September 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and an anti - Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot charting his relationship with his agent friend and sometimes lover an Irishman named Frank Pike. In De Groot's narrative Pike is a charismatic IR a fighter sprung from prison in Spain to assist with the planned German invasion of Britain but who never gets the chance to consummate his deal with the devil. Meanwhile the other manuscript gives a very different account of the Irishman's doings in the Reich. Assuming the alter ego of the Celtic hero Finn Mc Cool Pike appears here as the ultimate Allied saboteur. His mission: an assassination campaign of high - ranking Nazi doctors culminating in the killing of Hitler's personal physician. The two manuscripts spiral around each other leaving only the reader to know the full truth of Pike and De Groot's relationship their ultimate loyalties and their efforts to resist the fascist reality in which they are caught.
Title: The Torqued Man A Novel
Author(s): Mann Peter
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063072114
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/10/2023
Description: A damn good read. Alan Furst A brilliant debut novel at once teasing literary thriller and a darkly comic blend of history and invention The Torqued Man is set in wartime Berlin and propelled by two very different but equally mesmerizing voices: a German spy handler and his Irish secret agent neither of whom are quite what they seem. Berlin September 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and an anti - Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot charting his relationship with his agent friend and sometimes lover an Irishman named Frank Pike. In De Groot's narrative Pike is a charismatic IR a fighter sprung from prison in Spain to assist with the planned German invasion of Britain but who never gets the chance to consummate his deal with the devil. Meanwhile the other manuscript gives a very different account of the Irishman's doings in the Reich. Assuming the alter ego of the Celtic hero Finn Mc Cool Pike appears here as the ultimate Allied saboteur. His mission: an assassination campaign of high - ranking Nazi doctors culminating in the killing of Hitler's personal physician. The two manuscripts spiral around each other leaving only the reader to know the full truth of Pike and De Groot's relationship their ultimate loyalties and their efforts to resist the fascist reality in which they are caught.
Title: The Torqued Man A Novel
Author(s): Mann Peter
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063072114
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/10/2023