Corpus: A gripping spy thriller

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RORY CLEMENTS was born on the edge of England in Dover, the son of a Royal Naval officer and a former WREN.

As in Le Carré novels, each character has a back-story that affects the action to a greater or lesser degree. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. A secret meeting during the Berlin Olympics, and some weeks later the very same young lady is found dead. 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.Her schoolfriend Nancy has suddenly died, apparently of a heroin overdose, and then the parents of another friend have been found butchered in their home. This clever novel, rich in deceptions and intrigue, shows the reach of Stalin and Hitler into every class of British society, threatening violence on horrific scale.

The deeper Thomas Wilde delves, the more he finds to link the murders with the girl with the silver syringe - and even more worryingly to the scandal surrounding the Abdication . M. Linton Gabriel Tallent Gareth Peter Garry Parsons Gavin Finch Gavin Oattes Geoff Colvin George Ermos George Hawley Geraint Evans Gerald M. The thing I hadn't appreciated before reading this is that the pre-war academic world is as split and turbulent as mainland Europe itself. Registered address: Unit 31, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom.I was totally convinced by the characters, in particular Tom Wilde, a professor of history who is writing a biography of Sir Robert Cecil, the Elizabethan and Jacobean statesman, the successor to Sir Francis Walsingham as the Queen’s spymaster (a nod to his earlier series, I thought). Rory Clements was born on the edge of England in Dover, the son of a Royal Naval officer and a former WREN. That and a line in national neutrality that will come in handy when he seeks to retain a sense of objectivity when all around lose theirs. 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? Well, I’m over the moon to have been introduced to his writing as I enjoyed this novel immensely and I am delighted to share my review with you today, so thank you for stopping by.

American lecturer Tom Wilde, a specialist in Elizabethan espionage history, is dragged into political conspiracies as Communists and Nazis vie for influence over the English throne. I received an ARC of this title from the publisher and Emily Burns with my thanks, and this is my unbiased review. Corpus by Rory Clements starts in Berlin as a young Englishwoman slips away from a friend to deliver a secret package to an unnamed man. There is a social divide here, too, with many types of people represented – the upper classes, politicians, immigrants, academics, miners – but some things unite them, including murder. Corpus is a standout historical novel and spy thriller by an author who can turn his hand to any historical period he chooses.

Unfortunately, though, the protagonists are pale and dull compared to the supporting cast and, while some of the plot turns are gripping, others are flimsy and one is outright ludicrous. To be honest unless the publisher had offered me this copy to review I wouldn’t have known it existed – I’m so grateful to them for drawing my attention to it. Levitt Stuart Lawrence Stuart MacBride Stuart Turton Sue Bentley Sue Mongredien Sue Turton Sujata Massey Susan Calman Susie Hodge Susie Williams Svend Brinkmann Svetlana Alexievich Swapna Reddy T. The portrayal of Cambridge dons is rather polarised, they all seem to be either fascists or communists, reflecting the political jockeying that went on pre-war.

Wilde is a likable and engaging hero and his associate, the British intelligence operative Philip Eaton, a suitably intriguing and ambivalent character, entirely in keeping with the convoluted plot and setting. This clever novel, rich in deceptions and intrigue , shows the reach of Stalin and Hitler into every class of British society, threatening violence on horrific scale. She convinces her neighbour, Thomas Wilde (a Cambridge history professor whose specialism is Elizabethan espionage) to help her investigate and it’s not long before they discover that Nancy’s death coincided with the brutal murder of the parents of a college friend of Nancy and Lydia’s.While it is not yet front page news, Britain at the end of November, 1936, is taken up with the rights and wrongs of the potential abdication of King Edward, who is said to be a personal friend of Adolf Hitler. Rory Clements is best known for his John Shakespeare series, but Corpus is the first of his books I’ve read, so I was unsure that I would like it when I received an ARC from NetGalley. While fragile teacups clink innocently against their saucers in houses up and down the country, the elements of conspiracy are frighteningly close and its darkening divide has the potential to alter the course of history as we know it.