Tangier [electronic resource]
Stephen Holgate2017
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A LETTER FROM THE PAST FORCES A DISGRACED BUREAUCRAT TO CONFRONT HIS FUTURE
TANGIER tells two parallel stories: one, a mystery, and the other a spy story
set fifty years apart and told in a series of alternating sections. In the
first, we follow Christopher Chaffee, a disgraced Washington power broker whose
father, a French diplomat, died in a Vichy prison in 1944-or so he had always
believed until a letter, received decades after it was posted, upends his life.
Soon he is reluctantly inspecting the corkscrew of his own life as he searches
the narrow lanes and twisted souls of Tangier's ancient medina in search of the
father he never knew.
The second is a tale of espionage and betrayal, set in Morocco during WWII. Rene
Laurent, Christopher's father, struggles to maintain his integrity-and his
life-in the snake pit of wartime Tangier. The stories slowly intertwine as
Christopher unravels the mystery of his father's fate, and Laurent becomes
trapped in a web of lies and ...
Main title:
Tangier [electronic resource] / Stephen Holgate
Author:
Stephen Holgate, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Blank Slate Press, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781943075294
Language:
English
BRN:
448939
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |