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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 31 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Kevin Kenerly. |
| Summary |
The new, fast-paced, WWII-era spy thriller from the author of New York Station Forty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters sixteen months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works are "degenerate art" seized by the Nazis and shipped across the Atlantic to create cash for their covert operations. But how to prove it? There's only one man for the job-Roy Hawkins. The British Secret Intelligence Service has put their half-American star agent in tough spots before and he's always come out on top. But this time Hawkins is headed to Mexico, where the vibrant art scene and tight-knit German expatriate community obscure the paintings' ultimate purpose. As he tracks the art from Veracruz to Mexico City, Hawkins struggles to see the Nazis' endgame. For the first time, he doesn't speak the language and he doesn't know the players-but he does know how to fight Fascists. Problem is, in the "get along and go along" culture of wartime profiteering, distinguishing between the true believers and the opportunists is no easy task. Can Hawkins untangle the false leads and double crosses before the Nazis realize their sinister plan? "Hawkins, introduced in Dudley's debut New York Station (2018), is a man of conscience who comes to admire Mexico's anti-Fascist atmosphere and its president, Lázaro Cárdenas, who was called by Trotsky the most honest politician in the world. With its historical basis and inclusion of historical figures, this is both enlightening and compelling spy fiction." "A multifaceted protagonist who's a refreshing change from formulaic genre leads lifts this gritty spy thriller from Dudley…Fans of Alan Furst and Joseph Kanon will find familiar pleasures." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Great Britain. MI6 -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
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Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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British -- Mexico -- Fiction.
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Nazis -- Fiction.
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Art thefts -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Art treasures in war -- Fiction.
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Mexico -- Fiction.
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Suspense fiction.
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Spy stories.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Kenerly, Kevin, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982635145 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982635142 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13504876 |
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