Tightrope
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590517237 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and TrapezeAn historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers. A novel of divided loyalties and mixed motives, Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfillment leads her to shocking choices. . Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors
His feeling for time and place remains impressively sharp, from rationing-era London to the ‘strange, febrile vitality’ of post-war Paris. "The characters in Simon Mawer’s latest spy thriller, Tightrope, set in the gray, exhausted, murky days of post-World War II England, spend a lot of time in tense encounters that pivot on the issue of who knows what, and who’s telling the truth about itMawer brings a fine sense of story, an intriguing plot and a lovely way with a sentenceTightrope is full of satisfying twists, and we can’t help cheering for its tough, resourceful heroine…” —The New York Times"Mawer has excelled with another tangled, character-led literary thriller. i is a perfectly poised balanci
"I recommended this for my bookclub" according to Greg. I recommended this for my bookclub. I had read Trapeze and while not necessary to follow the story line in Tightrope, most found Tightrope would have been better if Tightrope was read first. I enjoyed the tension and operational detail in Trapeze; this was largely missing in Tightrope because we're reading an account of what has already happened. I would have liked more of the espionag. "Not a book to sit down and relax reading it" according to Shirley. Not a book to sit down and relax reading it - but it does give some idea of what life might have been for those involved in undercover activities during WW2.. John T. Dooley said Rut. I am in a bad rut of reading Rut John T. Dooley I am in a bad rut of reading 4.5 star books in which live a protagonist that I don't care a bit about.. .5 star books in which live a protagonist that I don't care a bit about.
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England. His first novel, Chimera, won the McKitterick Prize for first novels in 1989. Mendel’s Dwarf (1997), his first book to be published in the U.S., was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a New York Times Book to Remember for 1998. The Gospel of Judas, The Fall<