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by Eve Karlin

Overview

Midnight, June 13, 1942: Peter Burger stands on a foggy beach, ears primed as a submarine hull scrapes the sandy sea bottom. He has endured seventeen months in a Gestapo prison and seventeen days on a Nazi U-boat only to have landed on American shores with six boxes of explosives and no escape.

Do national borders determine good and evil? Who is a hero, and Who is a traitor?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942078395
Publisher:	Coffeetown Press
Publication date:	06/14/2022
Pages:	250
Sales rank:	631,093
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Eve Karlin is the author of City of Liars and Thieves. Eve lives in East Hampton, New York with her husband and triplets and is a bookseller at BookHampton, where she runs the book club and the local author program. She is a recipient of the 2021 James Patterson Holiday Bookseller bonus awarded by the American Booksellers Association.

Editorial Reviews

05/23/2022

This workmanlike espionage novel from Karlin (City of Liars and Thieves: Love, Death, and Manhattan’s First Great Murder Mystery) takes as its basis a failed real-life 1942 German sabotage plot against the U.S. When Grete Baum, a Jewish refugee, attends a patriotic parade in Manhattan, she’s approached by an attractive stranger, Peter, who, unbeknownst to her, is part of a group of spies who landed on Long Island from a German submarine. Flattered by his interest in her, she joins him for a bite to eat and ends up unintentionally aiding his efforts. Grete eventually learns that Peter and his colleagues are targeting a power station in a secret basement in Grand Central, the destruction of which would cripple not only troop transports in the Northeast but also aluminum plants producing American warplanes. Inspired by the character of Nora Charles as played by Myrna Loy in The Thin Man movie, Baum tries to thwart the sabotage while keeping Peter from a death sentence. The prose and characterizations are merely serviceable. This is no The Day of the Jackal. (June)

Publishers Weekly