The Company of Strangers

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Item specifics

Condition
Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
Release Year
2001
ISBN
9780151008469
Book Title
Company of Strangers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2001
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.6 in
Author
Robert Wilson
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Thrillers / Espionage
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
480 Pages
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151008469
ISBN-13
9780151008469
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1910590

Product Key Features

Book Title
Company of Strangers
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Espionage
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Author
Robert Wilson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-024186
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
PRAISE FOR THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS "[The Company of Strangers] is streets ahead of most other thrillers."-The Times (London) "A plotter's delight . . . [Wilson] creates an intriguing moral maze for his heroine to negotiate."-The Guardian (London) PRAISE FOR A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON Winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel "Robert Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon turns a local murder case into a taut international thriller . . . with considerable, nailbaiting skill."-Time "A tour de force."-Los Angeles Times "Historically sprawling, richly distilled thriller . . . The whole is a suspenseful, intricately plotted, violent and steamy tale. You will turn the last page of this compelling novel out of breath."-The New York Times, "A plotter's delight . . . [Wilson] creates an intriguing moral maze for his heroine to negotiate."-The Guardian (London), Robert Wilson, whose award-winning A Small Death in Lisbon broke him out as an international thriller writer in the Ambler, le Carré, and Furst tradition, scores with this exceptionally well-plotted novel of wartime intrigue in England and Portugal. Andrea Aspinall, a brilliant young British mathematician, is recruited by the British Secret Service and put through a rush course in spycraft before being sent to Lisbon, where she quickly falls in love with a disenchanted German agent and, in less than two weeks, manages to lose her virginity, unmask a conspiracy, and interrupt Germany's plan to build the first atomic bomb. The action covers a long time span--from the early years of Word War II to the era of glasnost, when Andrea, now an Oxford mathematician long retired from spying, encounters the man she once loved and lost. Karl Voss has become an East German double agent who's bent on revealing the Russian mole in England's service. The narrative wanders a bit, but the strong, spare writing and deft characterization set this apart as one of the year's better international espionage novels, one that should introduce Wilson to a bigger audience. 
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
The award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon brings an exciting richness to the long shadow of evil in this crackling 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.
LC Classification Number
PR6073.I474C6 2001

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