𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

The pursuit of pearls: a novel

✍ Scribed by Thynne, Jane


Publisher
Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
310 KB
Edition
1
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0553393928

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, Robert Harris, and Susan Elia MacNeal, here is the next thrilling historical novel featuring Clara Vine, the British actress and special agent who glides through the upper echelons of Nazi society, covertly gathering key intelligence--and placing herself in mortal peril.

In the spring of 1939, the drums of war beat throughout Europe, but nowhere more ferociously than in Berlin. The film studio where Clara Vine works is churning out movies, but each day that she stays in Germany is more dangerous than the last. Spying on the private life of the Third Reich, passing secrets to contacts in British intelligence, falling into a passionate affair--any of these risky moves could get Clara shot. So she is wholly shaken when someone close to her is murdered instead. The victim is Lottie Franke, an aspiring costume designer and student at the prestigious Faith and Beauty finishing school that trains young women to become...


πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES


cover
✍ Janet Evanovich; Lee Goldberg πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2016 πŸ› Bantam 🌐 English βš– 316 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

**Janet Evanovich, author of the blockbuster Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, writer for the *Monk* television show, team up once again in their rollicking, *New York Times* bestselling Fox and OHare series!** Nicolas Fox, international con man, thief, and one of the top ten fugitives o

cover
✍ Vince Flynn πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2009 πŸ› Simon and Schuster;Atria Books 🌐 English βš– 240 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING POLITICAL THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING TALE OF ESPIONAGE, COVERT INTELLIGENCE, AND COUNTERTERRORISM. The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National

cover
✍ Joyce Carol Oates πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2019 πŸ› Grove Atlantic;The Mysterious Press 🌐 en-US βš– 125 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark se

cover
✍ Berry, Steve πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2008 πŸ› Ballantine Books 🌐 English βš– 437 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s _The Columbus Affair_ and a Cotton Malone dossier. As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, St

cover
✍ Berry, Steve πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2009;2008 πŸ› Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books 🌐 en-jm βš– 459 KB πŸ‘ 1 views

### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In bestseller Berry's fourth thriller to feature exJustice Department agent Cotton Malone (after *The Venetian Betrayal*), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying in 1971 in a nucl

cover
✍ Steve Berry πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2008 πŸ› Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books 🌐 en-GB βš– 435 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

"As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vess