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Dark Voyage
by Furst, Alan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ is in a plastic sleeve.
- ISBN 10
- 1400060184
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060184
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2004. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ is in a plastic sleeve.. 256, [2] p. Map. In another hair-raising black-and-white noir from Alan Furst, World War II is the backdrop, and preventing the enemy from sinking any more merchant ships is the point: in two years, the Allies have lost nearly 1600 vessels. A Dutch ship docked in Tangier, recruited by British intelligence and disguised as a neutral Spanish freighter carrying sardines and cooking oil, is sent to Portugal to pick up some sophisticated espionage technology. Then, under the command of its Dutch captain, Eric DeHaan, the ship--with a passenger list that includes a Russian beauty and a Greek stowaway--will carry a group of commandos on a harrowing voyage to Tunisia, where they hope to destroy the Nazi stronghold--if they aren't destroyed first by a mine or a submarine.
Synopsis
"In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . . ."May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo.But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast--a secret mission, a dark voyage.A desperate voyage. One more battle in the spy wars that rage through the back alleys of the ports, from elegant hotels to abandoned piers, in lonely desert outposts, and in the souks and cafes of North Africa. A battle for survival, as the merchant ships die at sea and Britain--the last opposition to Nazi German--slowly begins to starve.A voyage of flight, a voyage of fugitives--for every soul aboard the Noordendam. The Polish engineer, the Greek stowaway, the Jewish medical officer, the British spy, the Spaniards who fought Franco, the Germans who fought Hitler, the Dutch crew itself. There is no place for them in occupied France; they cannot go home.From Alan Furst--whom The New York Times calls America's preeminent spy novelist--here is an epic tale of war and espionage, of spies and fugitives, of love in secret hotel rooms, of courage in the face of impossible odds. Dark Voyage is taut with suspense and pounding with battle scenes; it is authentic, powerful, and brilliant.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62995
- Title
- Dark Voyage
- Author
- Furst, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ is in a plastic sleeve.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 1400060184
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060184
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Naval Intelligence, Tagus River, Eric DeHaan, Royal Navy, Clandestine Operations, Spies, Merchant Shipping, Fugitives, Naval Warfare, Naval Operations, Detection Equipment
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