HarperCollins, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6. HarperCollins, 2002. Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid, gently used book. From the brutal Portuguese fascist regime to the paranoia of Cold War Germany, Andrea Aspinall, mathematician and spy, encounters terror, and extreme violence. She meets Karl Voss, a military attache to the German legation, who is on a mission to rescue German from annihilation. They meet and attempt to find love in a world where no one can be believed. 400 pages. 12 mo. 2002, HarperCollins.

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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: The Parnassus BookShop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 029767
Title: The Company of Strangers
Author: Wilson, Robert
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0006512038
ISBN 13: 9780006512035
Publisher: HarperCollins
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2002
Size: 12mo - over 6
Keywords: THRILLER; PORTUGAL; FASCISM; GERMANY, COLD WAR; SPIES
X weight: 0 oz

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