An Unquiet Peace
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Descripción editorial
Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets Code Name Verity in this propulsive, quick-witted mystery set in late-1940s Los Angeles, as former WWII spy Evelyn Bishop and LA noir detective Nick Gallagher team up as an unconventional duo…
From the screenwriter of Bride Hard starring Rebel Wilson!
As an undercover operative for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, Evelyn Bishop routinely embarked on deadly missions. By contrast, civilian life should be simple. Yet Evelyn, now back in Los Angeles, struggles with the responsibility of being the new president of Bishop Aeronautics, when people see her as nothing more than a beautiful socialite.
With Nick Gallagher, at least, Evelyn can be entirely herself. Once a fellow spy, now her fiancé, Nick works as a private investigator. But the mission that first brought them together is not entirely over. Evelyn receives a call from her former commanding officer, who is overseeing the Berlin Airlift. He is concerned that the Soviets are trying to recruit Kurt Vogel, a scientist Evelyn and Nick smuggled out of Nazi Germany. After six long years, there’s word his wife and daughter may have survived the war. Is this a chance for a long-promised reunion, or a Russian ploy to lure Vogel to their side?
Past and present collide again when a routine case offers Nick a reunion with a childhood friend who runs a high-class “gentleman’s club.” The clientele includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to mobsters—to a hidden enemy who will draw both Evelyn and Nick into a web as twisted and treacherous as any they have ever faced . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Steinberg's sprightly second outing for engaged ex-spies Evelyn Bishop and Nick Gallagher (after Under the Paper Moon) delivers on the promise of its predecessor. It's 1948, and Evelyn has taken the reins of her family's California aeronautics business, while gumshoe Nick pounds the mean streets of L.A. Evelyn gets a break from her new role when Gen. Henry Gibson, her wartime commander, gives her a call. Six years earlier, Evelyn and Nick extracted chemist Kurt Vogel from Berlin, though Vogel's wife and daughter had to be left behind. Now, Vogel has received a postcard from Germany supposedly written by his wife, but Gibson suspects that it's a fake, sent by the Soviets to lure Vogel back to Berlin so they can harness his scientific discoveries for their own gain. Evelyn travels to Germany to investigate, using her role as company president as cover. Meanwhile, Nick gets enmeshed in a murder case that threatens to put him on the wrong side of L.A. mob boss Mickey Cohen, and may implicate key figures on the LAPD. Steinberg irons out the first novel's kinks, delivering a smoother blend of rom-com and thriller with many more narrative surprises. Fans of David Baldacci's Aloysius Archer series should check this out.
