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A Game of Spies
by John Altman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Thorndike Press (2002-05)
ISBN: 0786241047
EAN: 9780786241040
Dewey Decimal #: 813.6
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 355 pages
Edition: Largeprint
SKU: 01AB-037-7-0708
Condition: G
Comments: EX-LIBRARY with typical stickers and markings; Clean body of text; Boards show minor shelfwear; Spine slightly rolled; Pages bright and tight. *International Buyers Welcome!* (except for prohibitively heavy items, as noted) - Satisfied customers in over 40 countries! We ship quickly and guarantee satisfaction. Your purchase helps support a U. Chicago student
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
'If there are thriller writers better than this, I'd like to know who they are.' Jack Higgins It is February 1940, and England is desperate to find out when and how Hitler will make his move west toward France. Eva Bernhardt, a young sleeper agent in Berlin who has been seduced into spying by a roguish MI6 agent, receives a vital piece of information and makes a run for it. But the Germans are on to her fast -- too fast. In a lethal game of ruse and counter-ruse, the British and Germans engage in an intelligence war. Uncertain whom to trust, Eva must take her future into her own hands -- and with it, perhaps, the future of the entire war. A book to devour at one sitting, with dazzling set pieces, unpredictable twists and unforgettable characters.
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-12-22
This book was exciting from begining to end. I was engaged from page one and John Altman keept up the pace without pause. This was an excellent book and I can't wait to read his next one!
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WWII spy thriller
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-05-07
5 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Although I'm not generally a reader of World War II nazi spy stories, a friend whose judgment I usually trust recommended this author#s work very highly and lent me the book. I was hooked from the first chapter and could hardly put the book down. I can't judge the historical accuracy of the book, but in terms of interesting characters and complex, fast moving plot, this book was intriguing and well written. I give it 5 stars!
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Clumsy spies
Rating  (3)
Date: 2004-04-18
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
This novel seemed to be a little fragmented. It starts out with a kidnapping which seems to be partially explained later in the novel, but not very well. There seem to be a lot of spies and intelligence service people tripping over their feet, and sleeper agents who are not very well placed. People seem to be dashing about in all directions. One would like to think that intelligence services operate with some amount of intelligence and well trained personnel, but perhaps that is wishful thinking.The author tries to wrap things together later in the novel with an explanation of some grand scheme to plant misinformation, but by that point I had lost interest. It is the usual case in the spy business, i.e., you don't know who is working for whom, and you may not be sure of who you are working for yourself. You really can't trust anyone. In this novel, various people have been blackmailed or seduced into spying, which would usually produce unreliable agents. It would be better to find someone willing to sell out for money (the usual case), or perhaps someone with a grudge against the establishment, perhaps someone who did not get a promotion which they feel in their own mind that they merited, i.e., a Benedict Arnold type. I would note that the real sleeper agents at the start of World War II tended to be well placed, e.g., the one at Scapa Flow or the one in Honolulu, where they could provide valuable information.
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A good spy book
Rating (3)
Date: 2004-02-04
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
i liked his first novel much better, but this one is pretty good, it reads fast, pick up a copy one quiet weekend and enjoy it.
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Wow!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-07-31
3 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
The stories and characters are immensely alive, well-plotted, and consistently engaging; give yourself a gift of this...
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