London: Harpercollins. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket; Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; . Grey cloth boards with metallic blue lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, . no names or marks inside.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing; 464 pages; Lisbon 1944. Andrea Aspinall, mathematician and spy, and Karl Voss, embittered military attache to the German Legation, try to find love in a world where no-one can be believed. After a night of terrible violence Andrea is left with a secret which precipitates a life-long addiction to the clandestine world. ; 0002326698 .

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The award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon brings an exciting richness to the long shadow of evil in this crackling new novel of spycraft and international intrigue. Lisbon, 1944: Andrea Aspinall, plucked out of academia by British intelligence so that her mathematical knowledge might help in the hunt for atomic secrets, disappears under a new identity in Lisbon, where such secrets are easily bought and sold. Karl Voss, already experienced in the illusions of intrigue when he arrives in Lisbon, is an attache at the German Legation, though he is secretly working against the Nazis to rescue Germany from annihilation. After a night of terrible violence, Andrea creates a family for herself from Voss's memory and the clandestine world they knew. In Portugal, in England, and in the chilly world of Cold War Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets aren't held by governments-and that death is a relative term. In The Company of Strangers, Robert Wilson takes the chilling irony of "secret intelligence" to a new and more poignant human level, as he shows that the heart is both more knowing and more secretive than the mind.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12107
Title: The Company Of Strangers
Author: Wilson, Robert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket; Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; Grey cloth boards with metallic blue lettering to spi
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0002326698
ISBN 13: 9780002326698
Publisher: Harpercollins
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2001
Bookseller catalogs: Thrillers;

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