Paul Watkins
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1949. In the bombed-out ruins of Cologne, Hanno Dasch is king. Director of the most successful black market operation in post-war Germany, Dasch has kept his clients supplied with goods so extravagant and rare that they were almost impossible to find even at the height of Germany's conquests. Nobody but Dasch, his enigmatic daughter, and the war criminal he keeps as his bodyguard, know how he does it. None of this has escaped the attention...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The Promise of Light is a joltingly authentic literary adventure by Paul Watkins, a brilliant young novelist The Philadelphia Inquirer has called "the presumptive heir to the Hemingway/Mailer/Crane/Remarque war-chronicling Mantle of Genius." The year is 1921. Ben Sheridan, the son of an Irish immigrant, is about to grab his share of the American dream. He takes a job at a bank to escape the sleepy Rhode Island backwater where he grew up, but even...
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 7
Publisher
OPUS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
April, 1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic Sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket, which has already caused massive damage to the cities of London and Antwerp. This device, known only by the codename Diamond Stream, will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with...
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