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City of Spies

City of Spies, Book 1

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City of Spies

By: Mara Timon
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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The stunning debut from the new name to watch in espionage thrillers. For fans of Charlotte Philby, The Night Manager and Rory Clements, this is perfect Sunday night (or any night) drama.

Lisbon, 1943. After escaping from Nazi-Occupied France, SOE agent Elisabeth de Mornay, codename Cecile, receives new orders: she must infiltrate high society in neutral Lisbon and find out who is leaking key information to the Germans about British troop movements. As Solange Verin, a French widow of independent means, she will be able to meet all the rich Europeans who have gathered in Lisbon to wait out the war. One of them is a traitor, and she must find out who before more British servicemen die.

Complications arise when 'Solange' comes to the attention of German Abwehr officer Major Eduard Graf. As they get to know each other, she struggles to keep her lies close to the truth.

But in a city that is filled with spies, how can she tell who is friend or foe?

©2020 Mara Timon (P)2020 Bonnier Books UK Detective Espionage Historical Mystery Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Portugal Exciting War

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One of the best novels I’ve found on audible yet, it will be hard too top

Brilliant

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A fabulous book, full of twists and turns. The characters are intreging. Excellently read. leaves you wanting more.

City of spies

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More Jilly Cooper than Le Carré this airport romp contains more cliches than ought to be acceptable. Two dimensional characters and unlikely scenarios spoil the potentially enjoyable read. The narrators accents are great reminders of ‘allo, allo’. A weak effort I’m afraid.

Cliche & Weak

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Fantastic story and believe you me, as a Portuguese myself and knowing a bit about Portuguese history, it fits perfectly well with the times and mentally that prevailed to these days....
Fantastic reading, thank you!

Couldn’t stop, amazing

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after an excellent beginning towards the third quartile I thought the story and the dialogue began to deteriorate, stretching credibility a tad. A good ending though reprieved the book for me and I look forward to the sequel, soon I hope.
I liked the author's post script plug for Lisbon as a short stay holiday location. I'm tempted having never been there.
A very good narration.

Overall, I'm impressed

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loved both writing and construction. I was particlarly impressed with it as debut novel and look forward to the further adventures of 'Lizbeth in the future. Keep them coming Mara.
The performance was excellent, Kirsten always does a good job.

Great novel

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A fantastic fiction with gripping writing and excellent narration. I feel like I've known the characters myself.

Beautiful blend of history and fiction

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Enjoyable spy story line with WW2 flavour and a nice historic understanding of Potugals balancing act during that time .

intrigue and Fado

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I liked the characters and the intrigue. reasonably well told,some dodgy accents, but acceptable

an enjoyable story

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Having a female author and protagonist I had hoped that this would be different to a standard WWII espionage thriller; particularly as Portugal features in so few of them. However the characters are totally one dimensional and the dialogue clunky at best. The narrator doesn't help either with emphasis placed in very curious parts of a sentence. Ending is too corny for words.

For a far superior female spy in WWII, I suggest people try David Downing's superb 'station' series instead.

Formulaic spy story

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