Corpus: A gripping spy thriller

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The deeper Tom Wilde delves, both inside and outside college grounds, the more he wonders whether the murders are linked to the death of the girl with the silver syringe – and, just as worryingly, with the scandal surrounding King Edward VIII and his mistress Wallis Simpson. Against this background Corpus focusses on Tom Wilde’s investigations first into Nancy’s death, aided by her friend Lydia, who is convinced that Nancy was murdered, and then into yet more murders. Lingering beneath the narrative and characters’ partisan choices are the effects of the Great War, the Depression and its effect on the working population, plus the idealism that led many into communism and fascism as a means of achieving a better tomorrow, and sent young men to Spain to fight in a foreign Civil War. During the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, a young Englishwoman delivers vital forged documents to a Jewish scientist.

Bogle John Connolly John Dickson Carr John Fairfax John Gribbin John Hendrix John Le Carré John Simpson Johny Pitts Jonathan Clegg Jonathan French Jonathan Marks Jonathan Portes Jonathan Stroud Jo Nesbo Joseph Coelho Josephine Dellow Josephine Tey Joseph Jebelli Joseph Knox Joseph Vogl Josh Ireland Joshua David Bellin Joshua Robinson Josie Rogers Jo Spain Judith Woolf Judy Apps Julia Green Julia Lee Juno Dawson Justina Ireland Justine Windsor K. Registered address: Unit 31, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. But all is about to be revealed, thanks to the independent America press and King Edward VIII himself who is determined to put life with the woman he loves above duty to his country. His Cambridge is a dense and smoky world where fascists and communists are operating as secret societies, with both sides recruiting idealistic students and plotting to destabilise England for their own gain. After connecting a few erratic dots Wilde is directed into the path of a mysterious journalist whose talents allude to events more instrumental than getting a scoop for The Times.He can only urge them to consider the significance of evidence and prejudice in our understanding of the past and the present. A much-used word, karma is loosely understood as a system of checks and balances in our lives, of good actions and bad deeds, of good thoughts and bad intentions. The stakes are high, and Clements skilfully shows what the conflict between these two ideologies could do to a country by keeping the spectre of the Spanish Civil War looming in the background. There is one out-and-out baddie, another who looks like a baddie but possibly isn’t, and a journalist who may or not be a spy or a traitor. Rory Clements is familiar to many for his wonderful Elizabethan mystery series featuring the spy John Shakespeare, last seen in Holy Spy.

The government is divided, prime minister Stanley Baldwin determined to force an abdication and replace him with Edward’s brother Albert, Duke of York, and others, like Winston Churchill, advocating the King should be allowed to marry. When a renowned member of the county set and his wife are found horribly murdered, a maverick history professor finds himself dragged into a world of espionage which, until now, he has only read about in books. M. Linton Gabriel Tallent Gareth Peter Garry Parsons Gavin Finch Gavin Oattes Geoff Colvin George Ermos George Hawley Geraint Evans Gerald M. May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text.Wilde is a truly brilliant character who is no wannabe hero just a determined, level headed problem solver when the need demands, which will come in particularly handy in the minefield of political riddles he’s stumbled into. Best-selling author Mark Manson brings his signature no-nonsen

Clearly Rory Clements can turn his attention to any period of history he likes and in it he will find gold. This entry was posted in Earlier 20th C, Historical Fiction, Review, Thriller and tagged 1930s, 20th century, Historical fiction, Thriller on January 16, 2017 by Kate (For Winter Nights). When a friend of Lydia’s dies in mysterious circumstances, Wilde is drawn into trying to help her find out what has happened – and a real twisty, turny, wheels within wheels, where does anyone’s real allegiance lie tale begins to play out. Despite moving his setting forward 400 years, he cannot quite sever his connection to those great spymasters Walsingham and Cecil, whose dedication and ruthlessness helped save Britain from religiously-inspired Spanish expansionism.The plot features twist upon twist as Wilde, and the reader, doesn’t know who to trust: is that policeman really honest, or in the pay of the fascists or communists?