Name: Paris in the Dark von Robert Olen Butler
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Paris in the Dark Zusammenfassung

Paris in the Dark Robert Olen Butler

With Paris in the Dark, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and proves once again that he can craft a ripping good yarn (Wall Street Journal) with unmistakably literary underpinnings.

Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches-though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher Kit Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission. City-dwelling civilians are meeting death by dynamite in a new string of bombings, and the German-speaking Kit seems just the man to figure out who is behind them-possibly a German operative who has snuck in with the waves of refugees coming in from the provinces and across the border in Belgium. But there are elements in this pursuit that will test Kit Cobb, in all his roles, to the very limits of his principles, wits, and talents for survival.

Fleetly plotted but engaging with political and cultural issues that deeply resonate today, Paris in the Dark is this series' best novel yet.

Paris in the Dark Bewertungen

Praise for Paris in the Dark:

Paris in the Dark, with its ironic twists, is reminiscent of Somerset Maugham's World War I espionage tales...Mr. Butler...brings an earlier era to such convincing life through details, attitudes and reactions at once realistic and surprising.-Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal

Butler returns to his outstanding historical-mystery series starring Christopher Kit Marlowe Cobb with WWI in full swing...There are strong echoes of Hemingway...in the melancholy and sense of tragic inevitability that hangs over the book. Beneath the frame story, this is a surprisingly introspective and quite moving novel about love and war. -Booklist

Best is Butler's feel for the black-and-white-movie atmospherics of a war zone after hours: It's a thrill to follow Kit to German hangouts like Le Rouge et le Noir, where a password will get you in, but ther's no guarantee you'll get out.-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Reivew

Paris in the Dark...starts with that literal bang and doesn't let up, surrounding its engaging protagonist with rich atmosphere and a propulsive plot...a satisfying, stylish thrill.-The Tampa Bay Times Praise for Robert Olen Butler and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series:

[A] thrilling historical series . . . Butler does a terrific job of depicting both the journalist's facility for teasing information from his subjects and the spy's incessant fear of being discovered. There's something almost magical about the way the author re-creates this 1915 milieu.-Wall Street Journal, on The Empire of Night

This high-spirited adventure by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler is an antic concoction of genre cliches, literary sendups, personal homages, fanciful history and passages of great writing.-New York Times Book Review, on The Hot Country

[Butler's] writing is both crisp and thoughtful, his people ring true and he offers an amusing portrait of a golden age in journalism . . . A thinking person's thriller, the kind of exotic adventure that, in better days, would have been filmed by Sam Peckinpah.-Washington Post, on The Hot Country

A cracking good spy thriller, with a cast of memorable characters and a terrifically suspenseful plot that will have you casting the movie as you read. And Butler's elegant writing elevates the book-he is a master of everything from lyrical description to believable dialogue.-Tampa Bay Times, on The Empire of Night

[An] outstanding work of historical fiction.-Huntington News, on The Star of Istanbul

A smart and layered yarn . . . propulsive reading . . . Butler has developed a knack for snapping off taut, Hammett-esque sentences at tense moments.-Minneapolis Star Tribune, on The Empire of Night

The novel commingles character-driven historical fiction with melodrama and swashbuckling action . . . [Butler] holds the reader transfixed, like a kid at a Saturday matinee.-Booklist (starred review), on The Star of Istanbul

Robert Olen Butler is having fun in The Hot Country and readers will too. An intelligent entertainment with colorful history.-Joseph Kanon, on The Hot Country

Über Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seventeen novels, including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR012103702

ISBN 13

9780802128379

ISBN 10

0802128378

Titel

Paris in the Dark Robert Olen Butler

Autor

Robert Olen Butler

Serien

Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller

Zustand

Gebraucht - Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Mysterious Press

Datum

20181018

Anzahl der Seiten

256

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