
The War and Alex Vere
Alan Kennedy(Author)
Lasserrade Press
Published on 5. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
454 pages
978-1-9996941-1-1 (ISBN)
Description
"The government would be wise to tell the truth and, if a sufficient emergency arises, to tell one big, thumping lie that will then be believed." Extract from a secret internal memorandum on the workings of the United Kingdom war-time Emergency Powers Act.
Based entirely on true accounts of disinformation projects in London and Paris, this extraordinary novel addresses the dilemma of the "justified sacrifice" in times of war. Shifting between a fearful London and a fatally compromised France, SOE agents Alex and Justine, are caught up in the liberation of Paris. They are destined to discover the ultimate human cost of the "official lie" - a secret so grotesque that, even now, it is judged best forgotten.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
653 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9996941-1-1 (9781999694111)
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Person
Before becoming a full-time writer in 2009, Alan Kennedy was an academic psychologist. "The War and Alex Vere" is his seventh novel. He is the author of biographies of the psychologst and professional spy, Oscar Oeser, and childrens' author and amateur spy, Arthur Ransome. Kennedy's novels for children include the best-selling Ransomesque Romance, "The Boat in the Bay."