Pieces of the Puzzle
Will be published approx. on 28. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-83574-523-6 (ISBN)
Description
Christmas Day, 1941.
As survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor arrive by boat in San Francisco, they bring with them the devastating reality of war.
In a city gripped by fear, suspicion and a thirst for revenge, six lives become intertwined: a traumatised survivor, a grieving widow, a Japanese spy, a professor drawn into espionage, a Japanese-American family, and the general whose orders will send them - and thousands more - to internment camps.
Caught in a web of romance, blackmail, and betrayal, they are swept into an FBI investigation, an assassination plot and a desperate escape across borders.
Set against the forced removal of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, this gripping historical novel explores the human cost of war and the choices people are forced to make.
As survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor arrive by boat in San Francisco, they bring with them the devastating reality of war.
In a city gripped by fear, suspicion and a thirst for revenge, six lives become intertwined: a traumatised survivor, a grieving widow, a Japanese spy, a professor drawn into espionage, a Japanese-American family, and the general whose orders will send them - and thousands more - to internment camps.
Caught in a web of romance, blackmail, and betrayal, they are swept into an FBI investigation, an assassination plot and a desperate escape across borders.
Set against the forced removal of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, this gripping historical novel explores the human cost of war and the choices people are forced to make.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kibworth
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83574-523-6 (9781835745236)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
After an academic career spanning California to London, and having produced fifteen books on Indian culture, Stuart Blackburn began writing novels. He won the MM Bennetts prize for historical fiction with Into the Hidden Valley (2016), which drew on his research in a tribal area of India. He lives with his wife on the south coast of England.