The Sleeper
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- ¥800
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- ¥800
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A schoolteacher enters a war of shadows to save his daughter from the 3rd Reich
David Ashby spent the last war killing Germans, and the years after falling in love with one. By the time Hitler comes to power, David has a half-German daughter, Karen, whom he loves more than life itself. So when Europe begins to slide toward war, and it becomes unsafe for an American to stay in the Fatherland, David does the only thing he can: He flees—and takes his daughter with him.
David takes refuge in England, becoming a teaching master at a quiet country boarding school, and places Karen with friends on the Cornwall coast. But Hitler will not part with a daughter of the 3rd Reich so easily. German intelligence sends a sleeper, a dormant agent awakened, to finish off David and recover his child, drawing the mild-mannered schoolteacher—and the British intelligence services—into the thick of a secret war. Caught between 2 armies of spies, David will do whatever it takes to preserve Karen's freedom.
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Set in England in 1938, this standalone falls short of the high standard set by Janes's St-Cyr and Kohler series (Clandestine, etc.). American David Ashby, a veteran of WWI who's now a boarding school master, is haunted by his wartime experiences and fearful that another conflict, which England is ill prepared for, is looming. Meanwhile, Ashby harbors a big secret. After his German wife, Christina, and her father, Gen. Friedrich Otto von Hoffman, kept him from seeing his seven-year-old daughter, Karen, he kidnapped the girl and brought her to England. Ashby's discovery of the nude corpse of Daisy Belamy, the barmaid he was seeing (and who knew nothing of Christina), shatters a short period of calm. An MI5 operative Ashby meets at the crime scene warns him that von Hoffman will activate a sleeper agent to track him down and return Karen to Germany. The search for the sleeper agent's identity is unengaging, and Ashby lacks the depth Janes has invested in his other lead characters.
