David Lewis – A Jewel in the Crown (EPUB)
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Title: A Jewel in the Crown
Author: David Lewis
Language: English
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781496749116
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Multicultural Detectives – Fiction, Historical Thrillers, International Mystery – Other, World War II – Historical Fiction
Author: David Lewis
Language: English
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781496749116
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Multicultural Detectives – Fiction, Historical Thrillers, International Mystery – Other, World War II – Historical Fiction
James Bond meets Maisie Dobbs in this riveting new historical caper series featuring a gifted young socialist-turned-counterespionage spy on a World War II mission orchestrated by Winston Churchill himself…
1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.
Caitrin Colline—a Welsh coalminer’s daughter and an ardent socialist—will play the wife of Lord Marlton, Hector Neville-Percy. A less likely couple is at first difficult to imagine. Yet Caitrin’s bold, streetwise confidence and sharp wits complement Hector’s social ease and connections, essential to a second part of their mission:…
1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.
Caitrin Colline—a Welsh coalminer’s daughter and an ardent socialist—will play the wife of Lord Marlton, Hector Neville-Percy. A less likely couple is at first difficult to imagine. Yet Caitrin’s bold, streetwise confidence and sharp wits complement Hector’s social ease and connections, essential to a second part of their mission:…
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