Tom Wilde Series 4 Books Collection Set By Rory Clements (Corpus, Nucleus, Nemesis, [Hardcover] Hitler's Secret)

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The mystery of Nancy's death stays at the centre of the book, as the story branches out with other murders and subterfuges. As to why he chose to write thrillers, the author says that it might have something to do with his family history. Rory says that his generation of the Clements family is the first since the Crimean War to have not been in active service in some branch of the military, and he says that he feels fortunate that this is the case. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather participated in three major wars and were able to survive the fighting, but Rory fears that in the same place or situation that he may not have measured up. He says that psychoanalysts might wonder whether he’s trying to compensate for this fact by making stories that revolve around those that have more courage than he does, and he says that in this case that they would potentially have a point. Chapter 1 - Autumn 1945 - In Norfolk, Liz Lightfoot and Tony Hood are lovers, but are both married to other people. Tony’s wife Sandra. Liz’s husband Lucas. They’re all friends. Then along came Hitler, lucas quit the railways and joined royal norfolks, Tony unable to enlist as he has a farm and his dad had a stroke. So where across the dark waters out where the sea is, a submarine monstrous rises above the surface. Tony and Liz were making out then have to run for their lives. Someone sees them..

The pacing is a bit more measured here than in those books in the series when Tom was in a wartime setting. Yet conversations in drawing room soirées, country houses, pubs and the like bring their own dynamics as well as more subtle dangers. The series is set in the years leading up to and during World War II, and follows the adventures of a Cambridge professor and secret agent for the British government named Tom Wilde who must navigate the treacherous waters of wartime espionage and intrigue. Home grown fascism is central to the plot and seems to be quite vogue in current wartime thrillers. It is a subject that has been somewhat played down in the past and well deserves to be exposed the bleaching effect of sunlight. Perhaps it’s the result of the last few years with Brexit and immigration controls that are providing the inspiration for a reassessment within literature?The book takes us through a number of terrifying scenarios. It’s enough to make anyone applaud the bravery of those who risk their life for such situations, even if we’re also shaking our heads in sorrow at the brutality and callousness shown by some inherently selfish characters. Though in the past I haven't read many spy novels, this book has certainly set an incredibly high bar for what I would expect and want from the in the future going forward. Clements ability to cause the reader to feel the same tension that Wilde must be feeling is fantastic, you're constantly on the edge of your seat, not wanting to put the book down just so you can see what is going to happen next. Well, it’s undoubtedly a murder. A body found in a ditch halfway to Ely. An unidentified man in his mid-thirties. Labourer or farmland from the callouses on his hands and the muscles on his arms, but beyond that we have no idea who he is.” My thanks to Bonnier Books U.K. Zaffre for an eARC and to Bonnier U.K. Audio for a review copy of the unabridged audiobook edition, both via NetGalley, of ‘The English Führer’ by Rory Clements. The audiobook is narrated by Adam Sims. We begin in Berlin, August 1936. A young woman, called Nancy Hereward, is on a mission to deliver some false papers to a Jewish physicist. We then move to Cambridge – it is November 1936 and we meet our main character, the history professor, Tom Wilde. Tom lives next door to Lydia, who was friends with Nancy and also another woman named Margot. When Nancy is found dead, from a supposed drugs overdose, Tom finds himself offering Lydia support. Lydia does not believe that Nancy’s death was an accident and the pair find themselves embroiled in much more than the murder investigation of one woman.

This is part of the Tom Wilde series, although it was my first outing with him. Tom Wilde is a Cambridge History Professor and the setting for this story is Autumn 1941. FB is Frank Broussard. “US Air Force officer. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Broussard, Flowthorpe airbase.” Frank was MI5 and Catesby’s informant, that’s why they went after Tom.Word Phenol - heard the word twice - connection. It was used to kills the crippled and blind authorised by doctors. The plot, although initially could be seen as far fetched, actually felt so realistic that it made me wonder 'did Hitler have a child that no one in the general public ever found out about'? It also made me question the power dynamics at the top of the regime and piqued my curiosity about this period of History even more than it was already. As usual, author Rory Clements has done his research and throughout the book there is a wealth of historical detail. Various senior Nazis such as Fritz Todt, Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goering and his wife Emmy, as well as Martin Bormann, make an appearance and Clements perfectly captures the atmosphere of the paranoia rampant in Germany in 1941 with different individuals and intelligence departments vying with each other to gain the upper hand. Despite the Nazis' iron grip on the people of Germany, we find that there are still ordinary people doing their best to fight against the ruthless murderers who now rule their country. This a gripping spy thriller with unusual plot twists right from the start. The man behind the hunt and search for Klara on the Nazis side is the insalubrious dangerous, Martin Bormann, the probable murderer in 1931 of Geli in an attempt to discover more about the mystery behind that child, when all of a sudden that same mystery has now somehow turned up, and so he's determined to do everything he can to keep it covered up from Adolf Hitler, if he wants to stay secure and alive himself. Admittedly, it seemed a bit forced to be sending Wilde on this mission and in afterthought it could have been any new character set away from this series but if you get past that then there was plenty of excitement and suspense whilst trying to stay hidden in sight with those pesky Nazi’s snooping around every corner.