The Company of Strangers

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  • Stunning
  • European-based
  • thriller
  • from
  • an
  • acclaimed
  • young
  • British
  • author:
  • ‘A
  • class
  • act’
  • Sunday
  • Times;
  • ‘First
  • in
  • a
  • field
  • of
  • one’
  • Literary
  • ReviewLisbon
  • 1944.
  • In
  • the
  • torrid
  • summer
  • heat,
  • as
  • the
  • streets
  • of
  • the
  • capital
  • seethe
  • with
  • spies
  • and
  • informers,
  • the
  • endgame
  • of
  • the
  • Intelligence
  • war
  • is
  • being
  • silently
  • fought.Andrea
  • Aspinall,
  • mathematician
  • and
  • spy,
  • enters
  • this
  • sophisticated
  • world
  • through
  • a
  • wealthy
  • household
  • in
  • Estoril.
  • Karl
  • Voss,
  • military
  • attaché
  • to
  • the
  • German
  • Legation,
  • has
  • arrived
  • embittered
  • by
  • his
  • implication
  • in
  • the
  • murder
  • of
  • a
  • Reichsminister
  • and
  • traumatized
  • by
  • Stalingrad,
  • on
  • a
  • mission
  • to
  • rescue
  • Germany
  • from
  • annihilation.
  • In
  • the
  • lethal
  • tranquility
  • of
  • this
  • corrupted
  • paradise
  • they
  • meet
  • and
  • attempt
  • to
  • find
  • love
  • in
  • a
  • world
  • where
  • no-one
  • can
  • be
  • believed.After
  • a
  • night
  • of
  • extreme
  • violence,
  • Andrea
  • is
  • left
  • with
  • a
  • lifelong
  • addiction
  • to
  • the
  • clandestine
  • world
  • that
  • leads
  • her
  • from
  • the
  • brutal
  • Portuguese
  • fascist
  • régime
  • to
  • the
  • paranoia
  • of
  • Cold
  • War
  • Germany,
  • where
  • she
  • is
  • forced
  • to
  • make
  • the
  • final
  • and
  • the
  • hardest choice.
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