Tightrope
Record details
- ISBN: 9781590517239 (softcover)
- ISBN: 1590517237 (softcover)
- ISBN: 9781590517246 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
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500 pages ; 21 cm - Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2015]
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Subject: | Young women England Fiction Intelligence officers Great Britain Fiction Special operations (Military science) Great Britain Fiction Great Britain History 20th century Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Spy stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | PR 9120.9 .M39 T54 2015 | 30775305512148 | General Collection | Available | - |
Summary:
As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesnt understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers.