Kingdom of Shadows
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Paris, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet favour for his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat and, desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, he trades in conspiracy - with SS renegades, Abwehr officers, British spies and NKVD defectors, leading Morath deeper and deeper into danger as Europe edges towards war.
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Kingdom of Shadows, Alan Furst
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- Released
- 2001
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €4.09
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- Title
- Kingdom of Shadows
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alan Furst
- Publisher
- Random House
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- ISBN10
- 0375503374
- ISBN13
- 9780375503375
- Category
- Detective / Thriller
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- Paris, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet favour for his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat and, desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, he trades in conspiracy - with SS renegades, Abwehr officers, British spies and NKVD defectors, leading Morath deeper and deeper into danger as Europe edges towards war.