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Zusatztext Deaver fans expect the unexpected from this prodigiously talented thriller writer . . . This is prime Deaver! which means prime entertainment. Informationen zum Autor Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of three collections of short stories and 32 internationally bestselling novels! including the 2011 James Bond novel Carte Blanche . He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers! which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man! The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon ! as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The first Kathryn Dance novel! The Sleeping Doll ! was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim. A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader´s Award for Best Short Story of the year! he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He won the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers´ Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts ! and their Short Story Dagger for The Weekender from Twisted. Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina and California. Visit his website! www.jefferydeaver.com! Facebook page! www.facebook.com/JefferyDeaver! and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JefferyDeaver. Klappentext The gripping new thriller from the Number One bestselling author of "The Vanishing Man". After prohibition! contract hitman Paul Schumann is caught! but given a choice by the army to live the rest of his life in prison or help his country. Posing as a member of the 1936 Olympic team! he must attempt to kill a high-ranking Nazi. Zusammenfassung Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936. But with Prohibition over and the gang wars associated with it coming to an end! Schumann is finding less and less work. He is contracted for a hit. But this time! he´s caught - and finds that he´s been set up. He´s taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given a choice: he can spend the rest of his life in jail! or he can help his country. He is to pose as a member of the 1936 Olympic team! travel to Berlin! and kill a high-ranking Nazi close to Hitler. Schumann has been picked because he´s a second generation German-American and can speak the language fluently. Or at least that´s what they lead him to believe... ...
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