Discharged from the army, Johnny Donoghue is eager to earn his redemption. His assignment is to infiltrate East Germany and arrange the defection of a top-flight scientist working on the Russian missile systems. But no one warned Johnny of the traps in store.

The Contract

Literature & Fiction

Seymour,Gerald

Contemporary

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<p>Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the seventh book in the series. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as thrilling, as tense and as unexpected in its culmination as anything Patrick O'Brian has written. Then, among other things, follows a shipwreck and a particularly sinister internment in the notorious Temple Prison in Paris. Once again, the tigerish and fascinating Diana Villiers redresses the balance in this man's world of seamanship and war.</p>

Surgeon's Mate

O’Brian, Patrick

United States

<p>Paperback. Pub Date :2010-05-06 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A funny. touching. authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II. the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes. the whole building became a target for enemy bombers. and in the BBC - as elsewhere - some had to fail and some had to die . It does not pretend to be an accurate history of Broadcasting House in those years. but 'one is left with the sensation'. as William Boyd said. reviewing it in the 'London Magazine'. 'that this is what it was really like '</p>

Human Voices

Fitzgerald, Penelope

This is the biography of the English novelist and essayist George Orwell. Orwell is the author of "Down and out in Paris", "Homage to Catalonia", "The Lion and the Unicorn" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

George Orwell : A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Bernard Crick

Professionals & Academics

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