Collaborator
Murray Davies(Author)
Pan Books (Publisher)
Published on 3. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-330-49080-1 (ISBN)
Description
December 1940 and England lies under German occupation. In the West Country, Nick Penny comes home after four months as a prisoner of war to act as interpreter to the provincial governor. He finds his father dead, his mother crippled, and his best friend Roy heavily involved in a resistance movement. When war hero Matty Cordington returns to run his father's estate, the three friends are re-united in a common purpose.
Everywhere there is the stench of collaboration as Nazis fulfil Hitler's threat to corrupt the countries he conquers. With less food supplies and growing demands on civilians to labour in the Reich, life in Britain becomes a compromise at every level, including Nick's sister Joan sleeping with a profiteer to find food for her family. There are few heroes, many collaborators - and one master traitor who can lead the Gestapo to every Resistance leader in the country. As Coronation day for a new monarch dawns, Nick sets off in a desperate race to reach London and intercept the traitor - and the scene is set for history to lurch once again.
'All the ingredients of a good thriller...an imaginative blend of well-researched fact and well-crafted fiction' Sunday Mirror
'A don't-dare-put-me-down-book' Daily Mirror
Everywhere there is the stench of collaboration as Nazis fulfil Hitler's threat to corrupt the countries he conquers. With less food supplies and growing demands on civilians to labour in the Reich, life in Britain becomes a compromise at every level, including Nick's sister Joan sleeping with a profiteer to find food for her family. There are few heroes, many collaborators - and one master traitor who can lead the Gestapo to every Resistance leader in the country. As Coronation day for a new monarch dawns, Nick sets off in a desperate race to reach London and intercept the traitor - and the scene is set for history to lurch once again.
'All the ingredients of a good thriller...an imaginative blend of well-researched fact and well-crafted fiction' Sunday Mirror
'A don't-dare-put-me-down-book' Daily Mirror
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-49080-1 (9780330490801)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Murray Davies was born ad brought up in the South Wales valleys, the son of a miner. He is the author of five thrillers, The Drumbeat of Jimmy Sands, The Samson Option, The Devil's Handshake, Collaborator and The Dogs in the Streets. He lives in Greenwich and Wiltshire.