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The city in flames

Russell, Michael (Fiction writer)2020
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1940. A woman lands on the British 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. Meanwhile in London, Stefan is undercover, working in a pub: The Bedford Arms in Camden. Run by an alcoholic, bankrupt landlord, it's a wartime refuge for the Irish in London. And while the city shakes under the Blitz, Stefan falls into a romance with Vera Kennedy, an Irishwoman who has her own dark secrets to hide.
Main title:
The city in flames / Michael Russell.
Imprint:
London : Constable, 2020.
Collation:
x, 350 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9781472130341 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92C
LC class:
PR6118
Local class:
AFCMYS Pbk
Language:
English
BRN:
2653059
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