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Informationen zum Autor RORY CLEMENTS writes full time in a quiet corner of Norfolk, where he lives with his wife, the artist Naomi Clements Wright. He is a Sunday Times bestselling author, and twice winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award, for Revenger and Nucleus . Three of his other novels - Martyr , Prince and The Heretics - have been shortlisted for awards. Munich Wolf is Rory's fifteenth novel, and the first featuring Munich detective Sebastian Wolff. His books have sold over 1 million copies to date. Klappentext Europe is in turmoil. The Nazis have marched into the Rhineland.In Russia! Stalin has unleashed his Great Terror.Spain has erupted in civil war.In Berlin! a young Englishwoman evades the Gestapo to deliver vital papers to a Jewish scientist. Within weeks! she is found dead in her Cambridge bedroom! a silver syringe clutched in her fingers.In a London club! three senior members of the British establishment light the touch paper on a conspiracy that will threaten the very heart of government. Even the ancient colleges of Cambridge are not immune to political division. Dons and students must choose a side: right or left! where do you stand? When a renowned member of the county set and his wife are found horribly murdered! a maverick history professor finds himself dragged into a world of espionage which! until now! he has only read about in books. But the deeper Thomas Wilde delves! the more he wonders whether the murders are linked to the death of the girl with the silver syringe - and! just as worryingly! to the scandal surrounding King Edward VIII and his mistress Wallis Simpson... Zusammenfassung FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE 2018 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER WINNER! NUCLEUS . Can a ruthless spy ring change the course of war? In a great English house! a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death . . . On holiday in France! Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield! who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain! in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile! a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties! including Americans! onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war. As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind! Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie? For readers of Robert Harris! C J Sansom and William Boyd! this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - by Sunday Times bestseller and author of Corpus and Nucleus ! Rory Clements. Praise for RORY CLEMENTS 'A dramatic! twisty thriller' DAILY MAIL 'Dramatic...pacy and assured' Daily Mail ' Political polarisation! mistrust and simmering violence ' The Times 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller ' Daily Express ' Enjoyable! bloody and brutish ' Guardian 'Sends a shiver down your spine ' Daily Mail 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists ' Sunday Telegraph ...
