WAITING TIME THE - Softcover

Seymour, Gerald

 
9780552146050: WAITING TIME THE
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0552146056 ISBN 13: 9780552146050
Verlag: Corgi Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

On a winter s night at the height of the cold war, in a small town on the Baltic coast of East Germany, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regime s secret police. The witnesses are terrorized into silence. But a British woman is present and hears the shot which ends her lover s life. A decade later, times have changed, the Wall dividing two great ideologies has crumbled and old enemies have become new friends. An ex-captain in the Stasi s counter espionage section, Dieter Krause is a f ted guest at the headquarters of British military intelligence. He is a prized asset, able to give a detailed profile of a rising star in the Russian Ministry of Defence. He is confident that the skeletons in his past are hidden, until... Corporal Tracy Barnes, a clerk, attacks him in the officers mess. For her, the waiting time is over. She was there at the scene of the young man s murder ten years before. She knows Krause is responsible. But she can t prove it - she needs the witnesses to talk. To make them do so, she must follow Krause to Germany, determined to see a long-delayed victory for justice. But defeat may mean a place on the mortuary slab.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Once a reporter for Independent Television News, Gerald Seymour has lived in the West Country for several years. His bestselling novels include Harry's Game, The Glory Boys, Field of Blood, Killing Ground, A Line in the Sand, Holding the Zero, The Untouchable, Traitor's Kiss, The Unknown Soldier, and Rat Run.

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On a winter's night at the height of the Cold War, in a small town on East Germany's coastline, a young man is dragged from the sea and killed by the regime's secret police. The witnesses are terrorised into silence. But a British woman is present and hears the shot which ended her lover's life.

A decade later, times have changed, and old enemies have become new friends. An ex-Captain in the Stasi's Counter Espionage section, Dieter Krause, is an honoured guest at the headquarters of British Military Intelligence. He is confident that the skeletons in his past are hidden until...

Corporal Tracy Barnes, a clerk, attacks him in the officers' mess. She was there at the scene of the young man's murder ten years before. She knows Krause is responsible. But she can't prove it - she needs the witnesses to talk. To make them do so, she must follow Krause to Germany. For her, the waiting time is finally over...

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Verlag
Corgi Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0552146056
ISBN 13 
9780552146050
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
464
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