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Dark Voyage
de Furst, Alan
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- ISBN 10
- 0753818868
- ISBN 13
- 9780753818862
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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London: Phoenix, 2004 0753818868. First edition. First printing of first UK paperback edition. Fine. 306 pages. No inscriptions. The clandestine voyages of the Dutch tramp ship Noordendam during the Second World War range from North Africa to Finland. Operating for the British Secret Service, the captain takes his crew and their ship through a series of meticuously described adventures. Furst at his considerable best. .
Sinopsis
"In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . . ."May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo.But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast--a secret mission, a dark voyage.A desperate voyage. One more battle in the spy wars that rage through the back alleys of the ports, from elegant hotels to abandoned piers, in lonely desert outposts, and in the souks and cafes of North Africa. A battle for survival, as the merchant ships die at sea and Britain--the last opposition to Nazi German--slowly begins to starve.A voyage of flight, a voyage of fugitives--for every soul aboard the Noordendam. The Polish engineer, the Greek stowaway, the Jewish medical officer, the British spy, the Spaniards who fought Franco, the Germans who fought Hitler, the Dutch crew itself. There is no place for them in occupied France; they cannot go home.From Alan Furst--whom The New York Times calls America's preeminent spy novelist--here is an epic tale of war and espionage, of spies and fugitives, of love in secret hotel rooms, of courage in the face of impossible odds. Dark Voyage is taut with suspense and pounding with battle scenes; it is authentic, powerful, and brilliant.
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- Librería
- David Edward Hellawell
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 984
- Título
- Dark Voyage
- Autor
- Furst, Alan
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0753818868
- ISBN 13
- 9780753818862
- Editorial
- London: Phoenix, 2004 0753818868
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- War Military Thriller WWII Sea Naval Ships Baltic Africa Portugal Atlantic Mediterranean Spies QKP
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