A Gathering of Spies John Altman,
Publisher: Jove
ISBN: 0515131105
Edition: Paperback; 2001-08-01
Summary:
In his debut novel, A Gathering of Spies, John Altman delivers an
old-fashioned page-turner, energetically told. Katarina Heinrich is a
beautiful Nazi spy living in deep cover as the wife of a Princeton
professor. When her husband is hired to help develop the atomic bomb
in Los Alamos, Catherine, as she is known, uncovers the secret and
resolves to carry it to Germany at all costs. A Gathering of Spies
fuses the plots of Katarina and a British double agent, Winterbotham,
whose wife is incarcerated in a Polish prison camp. Winterbotham
believes he will do anything to obtain her freedom. Does that include
trading the Allies' greatest secrets? In an exciting role reversal,
Katarina is the superhuman agent capable of storming a British
stronghold and retrieving a high-ranking German prisoner.
Winterbotham, by contrast, is cerebral and unknown even to himself.
His secret plots are revealed subtly. If there is a flaw in A
Gathering of Spies, it is that Altman's plots get too intertwined.
You might find yourself having to reread passages to get the buried
implications. But Altman never commits the cardinal sin of obscuring
important clues only to illuminate them in the last pages for the
aha! conclusion. A Gathering of Spies represents titans like
Einstein, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Hitler with casual
confidence--there to remind us that the stakes of this mystery are
nothing less than the fate of the world. --Kathi Inman Berens
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