**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
The pursuit of pearls: a novel
β 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
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β¦ 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...
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