England, 1963: Otto Fischer is out, free, unencumbered by the dross of his former life. He's his own boss, with a modest business that keeps him in the fresh air as much as (and even a little more than) he likes, and if most days the wind gets a continent's worth of run-up before it scours his ageing joints, at least he no longer has a target pinned to his back and Fate's large finger pointing down at his head.
His work keeps body and soul together, just, but an unexpected offer brings hope of a little extra money. If he accepts the proposal he gets the full amount promised; if he considers and then rejects it, he gets a lesser but still pleasing sum for the inconvenience of having come to London to hear the detail. If there's a catch, it's only that the offer is being made by a man whose every word and deed Otto has ample reason to distrust.
Still, he needs only to keep this in mind, refuse the work and go back to his moorland home with a hundred unearned pounds in his pocket. What could go wrong? A few days, a murder and a street assassination later, with KGB, Stasi, and, possibly, neo-Nazis hunting him though the streets of Munich, he wonders how the hell so much did go wrong, and so very quickly.
Genre: Historical
His work keeps body and soul together, just, but an unexpected offer brings hope of a little extra money. If he accepts the proposal he gets the full amount promised; if he considers and then rejects it, he gets a lesser but still pleasing sum for the inconvenience of having come to London to hear the detail. If there's a catch, it's only that the offer is being made by a man whose every word and deed Otto has ample reason to distrust.
Still, he needs only to keep this in mind, refuse the work and go back to his moorland home with a hundred unearned pounds in his pocket. What could go wrong? A few days, a murder and a street assassination later, with KGB, Stasi, and, possibly, neo-Nazis hunting him though the streets of Munich, he wonders how the hell so much did go wrong, and so very quickly.
Genre: Historical
Visitors also looked at these books
Used availability for Jim McDermott's Shaving the Bear