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The Torqued Man - A Novel

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  • Harper

  • Paru le : 11/01/2022
"A damn good read."-Alan FurstA brilliant debut novel, at once teasing literary thriller and a darkly comic blend of history and invention, The Torqued... > Lire la suite
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"A damn good read."-Alan FurstA brilliant debut novel, at once teasing literary thriller and a darkly comic blend of history and invention, The Torqued Man is set in wartime Berlin and propelled by two very different but equally mesmerizing voices: a German spy handler and his Irish secret agent, neither of whom are quite what they seem. Berlin-September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and an anti-Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot, charting his relationship with his agent, friend, and sometimes lover, an Irishman named Frank Pike.
In De Groot's narrative, Pike is a charismatic IRA fighter sprung from prison in Spain to assist with the planned German invasion of Britain, but who never gets the chance to consummate his deal with the devil. Meanwhile, the other manuscript gives a very different account of the Irishman's doings in the Reich. Assuming the alter ego of the Celtic hero Finn McCool, Pike appears here as the ultimate Allied saboteur. His mission: an assassination campaign of high-ranking Nazi doctors, culminating in the killing of Hitler's personal physician.
The two manuscripts spiral around each other, leaving only the reader to know the full truth of Pike and De Groot's relationship, their ultimate loyalties, and their efforts to resist the fascist reality in which they are caught.

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  • Date de parution : 11/01/2022
  • Editeur : Harper
  • ISBN : 978-0-06-307212-1
  • EAN : 9780063072121
  • Format : ePub
  • Nb. de pages : 384 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages : 384
    • Protection num. : Contenu protégé

À propos de l'auteur

Biographie de Peter Mann

Peter Mann grew up in Kansas City and is a longtime resident of San Francisco, where he teaches history and literature at Stanford. His debut novel The Torqued Man was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by The New Yorker and Best Historical Fiction of 2022 by Crime Reads. He also draws cartoons.

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