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The road to Ithaca
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- ISBN: 9781908524805
- ISBN: 1908524804
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Physical Description:
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396 pages ; 20 cm. - Publisher: London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Salmo Public Library | FIC PAS (Text) | 35163000150339 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 February #1
Rittmeister (cavalry officer) Martin Bora is military attaché at Germany's Moscow embassy. It is June 1, 1941. Bora knows that in three weeks he'll be leading a panzer unit in Germany's invasion of Russia, and he's looking forward to it. But, first, he must travel to Crete to buy wine, as ordered by Josef Stalin. Bora arrives on the island very soon after German paratroops have paid a very bloody price to secure Crete, and many Greek and British troops have escaped to the island's rugged, mountainous interior. Bora soon learns that, before delivering Stalin's wine, he must first investigate the murders of an acquaintance of Himmler's and the Cretans the man employed. A trek to the crime site almost costs Bora his life, leaving the officer's youthful, aristocratic sangfroid a bit shaken. Pastor has astutely made this younger Bora seem more callow than he does in earlier installments, set later in the war (Tin Sky, 2015). Here Bora is bothered by not yet having been grievously wounded, and he's untroubled by National Socialism, although he's carrying a banned copy of Joyce's Ulysses and recalling Odysseus' journey home after the Trojan War. Solid history, convoluted crime. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 January #5
Pastor's solid fifth Martin Bora mystery (after 2015's
Copyright 2017 Publisher Weekly.Tin Sky ) takes the Wehrmacht investigator from Moscow, where he's been stationed, to Crete in early June 1941, soon after the German occupation of the island and three weeks before Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Bora's mission is to secure 60 bottles of choice Cretan wine on behalf of NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria. But once the detective arrives in Crete, he receives a much different assignment. A British POW has reported to the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau that, during the recent battle for Crete, a British NCO observed eight German paratroopers enter the home of a prominent Swiss national, where he soon heard gunfire. After the departure of the paratroopers, this witness discovered all the civilian occupants slain. While Bora isn't as memorable a character as Bernie Gunther, Philip Kerr fans will still find this depiction of an honest German cop working under adverse wartime circumstances intriguing. Agent: Meryl Zegarek, Meryl Zegarek PR. (Mar.)
