A Gathering of Spies
by Altman, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0399146415
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146411
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Some indentions and wrinkles on cover. . Protected with a removable Brodart cover. Full number line. Debut novel. . 1 x 9.36 x 6.4 Inches. 320 pages. In l943, America thought it had rounded up all the German spies on its soil. It was wrong. Now, Germany's greatest weapon-a woman with special talents, both for tradecraft and for death, is headed home with critical information about the still-developing atomic bomb, and the Allies' chief hope for stopping her is a British agent with agendas of his own. Originally recruited into MI5 to pose as a double agent, he's been telling the Germans that he'd do anything to free his wife, a prisoner of a Polish concentration camp. This happens to be true. The question is: How much would he really do to set her free? Where are his loyalties exactly? As the two spies play cat-and-mouse games across three countries, the ambiguities deepen, each figure showing new sides, each action providing new twists, until at last both agents are swept into a series of climaxes as unpredictable as they are inevitable. .
Synopsis
John Altman is a musician and freelance writer living in New York City. A graduate of Harvard, he comes from an extended family of writers, including the novelists Karen Bender, Aimee Bender, and Robert Anthony Siegel.
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 601387
- Title
- A Gathering of Spies
- Author
- Altman, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399146415
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146411
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY, ESPIONAGE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Espionage;
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