The Key to Rebecca

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4Our spy in Cairo is the greatest hero of
them all'. Thus, uncompromisingly, Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel, in September
1942. The man he referred to was known
by some as Hussein, to others as Alex
Wolff, a European businessman. Under
either name, he presented as great a danger
to British hopes of containing the German
army as Rommel himself. This is his story.
Ken Follett, in this brilliant successor to
the international bestsellers Storm Island
and Triple, has woven one of the most
exciting novels of the Second World War
around the enigmatic, ruthless character of
Wolff, who arrived out of the desert,
armed with a radio set, a copy of Daphne
du Maurier's Rebecca, and his own
conviction that he would triumph. Only
Major William Vandam, an Intelligence
officer trying to forget, and the beautiful
Elene could stop Wolffs infiltration of
British" troop movements and strategic
plans. And it was a race against time, as
Tobruk fell to the Panzer divisions, and
the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

4Our spy in Cairo is the greatest hero of
them all'. Thus, uncompromisingly, Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel, in September
1942. The man he referred to was known
by some as Hussein, to others as Alex
Wolff, a European businessman. Under
either name, he presented as great a danger
to British hopes of containing the German
army as Rommel himself. This is his story.
Ken Follett, in this brilliant successor to
the international bestsellers Storm Island
and Triple, has woven one of the most
exciting novels of the Second World War
around the enigmatic, ruthless character of
Wolff, who arrived out of the desert,
armed with a radio set, a copy of Daphne
du Maurier's Rebecca, and his own
conviction that he would triumph. Only
Major William Vandam, an Intelligence
officer trying to forget, and the beautiful
Elene could stop Wolffs infiltration of
British" troop movements and strategic
plans. And it was a race against time, as
Tobruk fell to the Panzer divisions, and
the sky of Cairo was black with the
fragments of security documents hastily
burned.
The Key to Rebecca is a dramatic novel
of the very highest quality, but it is also
the account of a subtle, intricate
relationship between spy and spy-catcher,
between pursuer and his prey. The stakes
are the survival of the British in North
Africa or the collapse of the resistance
to the Axis powers.
Jacket photograph by Beverly Lebarrow
Typography by Don Macpherson Vissza