Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic, Desert D'Or is a moral proving g
Paris in the dark, a novel
β Scribed by Butler, Robert Olen
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic; Mysterious Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 178 KB
- Series
- Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller 4
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0802146465
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
With Paris in the Dark, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and proves once again that he can craft "a ripping good yarn" (Wall Street Journal) with unmistakably literary underpinnings.
Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenchesβthough that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission. City-dwelling civilians are meeting death by dynamite in a new string of bombings, and the German-speaking Kit seems just the man to figure out who is behind themβpossibly a German operative who has snuck in with the waves of refugees coming in from the provinces...
ABC : 1
Number of Words in Auth: 3
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All Identifiers : isbn:9780802146465
Single Author : Robert Olen Butler
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Sorted Author by LN, FN: Butler, Robert Olen
Title Length : 017
Title Parm D : Paris in the Dark
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β¦ Subjects
War correspondents -- Fiction
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