The City in Flames
$34.89
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2020
Summary
- A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence.
Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won’t explain, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is working on his father’s farm in Wicklow. One day he vanishes, leaving no sign of where he is heading - or why. Even in rural Ireland, rumours of assassination and Nazi spies fill the air, leaving Stefan’s father to wonder whether he is in terrible danger.
…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472130341 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472130340 |
| Author: | Michael Russell |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Stefan Gillespie |
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Having already brought 1930s Dublin and Danzig vividly to life in his outstanding debut The City of Shadows, Russell does the same for New York in a sequel that’s even better. The unique complexity of Ireland’s divided loyalties and enmities on the eve of the Second World War is explored with unusual clarity and intelligence, and there are plenty of thrills and spills too
Complex but compelling … utterly vivid and convincing … Michael Russell’s style is a pleasure: easy, fluent, clear, always calm and never over-heated. The result is an exciting comfort read, which sounds like a paradox but isn’tPart thriller and part historical novel, this is a blinder of a read!A great insight into a turbulent time in Dublin and Ireland, in a challenging-to-your-heartbeat kind of wayAbout The Author
Michael Russell
After a successful career as a television writer and producer, working on such series as A Touch of Frost, Midsomer Murders and Between the Lines, Michael Russell decided to write what he had always wanted to: books.
Michael’s Stefan Gillespie historical crime fiction series takes a sideways look at the Second World War through Irish eyes, and explores unexpected corners of the conflict, such as Danzig, New York and Franco’s Spain. The first two Stefan Gillespie novels, The City of Shadows and The City of Strangers were both shortlisted for Crime Writers’ Association awards.
Michael lives with his family in West Wicklow, in Ireland, not a million miles from Stefan Gillespie’s home.
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