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Praise for Robert Wilson: 'Excellent... gripping and grim. A vivid and steamy stumble on the wild side' Val McDermid 'A densely plotted thriller, prickling with excitement... fiercely imagined and not a little frightening' Literary Review
1941. Europe cowers under the dark clouds of war and Lisbon is one of the world's tensest cities. Klaus Felsen, a reluctant member of the SS, finds himself drawn into a savage battle in the mountains for a vital element in Hitler's Blitzkrieg. In modern-day Lisbon Inspector Ze Coelho is an outsider in the Policia Judiciaria. While investigating the death of a young girl, he suddenly finds himself involved in the events of 50 years ago, with ramifications for the Portuguese Revolution which is hardly a generation old. Wilson has carved out a niche for himself as a remarkable writer of atmospheric, colourful thrillers with a striking literary style. Here he echoes his forebears Greene and Ambler in a complex and powerfully characterized story that builds to a breathtaking climax. (Kirkus UK)
1941. Europe cowers under the dark clouds of war and Lisbon is one of the world's tensest cities. Klaus Felsen, a reluctant member of the SS, finds himself drawn into a savage battle in the mountains for a vital element in Hitler's Blitzkrieg. In modern-day Lisbon Inspector Ze Coelho is an outsider in the Policia Judiciaria. While investigating the death of a young girl, he suddenly finds himself involved in the events of 50 years ago, with ramifications for the Portuguese Revolution which is hardly a generation old. Wilson has carved out a niche for himself as a remarkable writer of atmospheric, colourful thrillers with a striking literary style. Here he echoes his forebears Greene and Ambler in a complex and powerfully characterized story that builds to a breathtaking climax. (Kirkus UK)
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A complex and totally gripping literary thriller from one of our most exciting young authors. 'A class act...For once a novelist influenced by Raymond Chandler is not shown up by the comparison' -- Sunday Times 1941. Europe's as dark as a coal hole and Lisbon's the furnace mouth. Klaus Felsen, press-ganged into the SS from his Berlin factory, has arrived at the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance in a whirl of opportunism and despair. Felsen's war takes him out of the spy-ridden hotel lounges and into the bleak mountains of the north where a less sophisticaed, more brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's blitzkrieg. There he meets the man who will start the first turn of the cycle of greed and revenge which wheels through the next fifty years. Inspector Ze Coelho, an outsider in the insider world of the Policia Judiciaria in modern day Lisbon, is investigating the death of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper into her insignificant death, he finds he's turning the dark soil of history and unearthing old bones. The Portuguese revolution is hardly a generation old and the injustices of the old fascist regime have never been fully resolved. But there is an older and even greater injustice which this small death in Lisbon has sought, horrifically, to redress, and in Ze's final push for the truth, he must confront a more chilling, powerful and resistant force.
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