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The Arms Maker of Berlin

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24th June 2010

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781848947283

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A ruthless arms billionaire and a disgraced history professor share a terrible secret. Nat Turnbull is dragged abruptly from his quiet academic life when his former mentor Professor Gordon Wolfe is arrested for stealing top secret archive documents dating back to the Second World War. Coerced into examining the archives for the FBI, Nat finds intriguing references both to Wolfe’s activities in an Allied intelligence office in Switzerland during the war, and to a mysterious student resistance group in Berlin known as the White Rose. Following Wolfe’s cryptic clues to Europe, soon Nat is in a desperate race to unlock the truth, before it gets him killed.

Reviews

<i>Daily Mail</i>
'Stylish, thoughtful and satisfying'
Charles Cumming
Fesperman is the closest thing America has to John le Carré, a writer of great elegance and sophistication whose novels are as topical as they are compelling. In a market saturated by factory-made thrillers, Fesperman stands out as a spy novelist of the highest quality.
<i>Daily Express</i> on THE AMATEUR SPY
'It goes without saying that Fesperman is a master of orchestrating tension - but he is equally good at characterising his vulnerable, conflicted protagonists'
<i>West Australian</i>
'Fesperman focuses on Switzerland and Germany and the wartime intrigues of the White Rose student movement, which dared to speak out against Hitler, as he crafts a tale of love, war and betrayal'
<i>USA Today</i> on THE PRISONER OF GUANTANAMO
A superb spy thriller worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carré and Ken Follett...darkly imaginative...draws a dramatic portrait
<i>Washington Post</i> on THE WARLORD'S SON
A terrific novel of intrigue, duplicity and death in the shadow of the Khyber Pass...Fesperman is that rare journalist who is also a gifted novelist...first-rate
Susannah Yager, <i>Sunday Telegraph</i> on THE PRISONER OF GUANTANAMO
'An absorbing novel with some provocative commentary on America's war on terror'