Prince of Spies
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4.0 • 118 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master.
1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him...
In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumours of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife.
Sent to Copenhagen, Prince is soon caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Dodging Gestapo agents, SS muscle and the danger of betrayal, his survival – and the war effort – hangs in the balance.
Gripping and intense, Prince of Spies is the first in a new espionage series that will delight fans of Alan Furst, Philip Kerr and John le Carré.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Alex Gerlis pieces together a masterful story of WWII-era espionage in Prince of Spies—the first in an excellent thriller series featuring police detective-turned-spook Richard Prince. In this debut outing Prince first tracks a German spy that washes up on the Lincolnshire coast before he’s seconded with MI5 and sent to Copenhagen to uncover a top-secret weapons plot. Within a superbly snaking plot, laced with rich historical detail, Prince tackles enemy combatants that include the SS and Gestapo.
Customer Reviews
Good value if you’re into WW2 spy novels
British. Law graduate who worked as a political researcher then as a journalist for the BBC for many years before he started writing novels about WW2. Most involve spies.
This is the first in a series based around a Lincolnshire police detective who is recruited to the intelligence service in 1942 after he locates and arrests a German spy harboured by a local sympathiser. MI6 needs someone on the ground in Denmark, close to where the Germans are working on the rocket programme. Our boy’s Mum was Danish so he speaks the lingo. Once he’s in Copenhagen, it’s a matter of dodging the Gestapo, avoiding betrayal, and saving the free world. There’s a love interest too, who ends up in a concentration camp. Standard spy fare in other words, but well executed. (Sorry. Poor choice of words).
Nothing new to see but good value if you’re into WW2 spy novels.