Tightrope: A Novel
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From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze
An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties
As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers.
A novel of divided loyalties and mixed motives, Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfillment leads her to shocking choices.
An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties
As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers.
A novel of divided loyalties and mixed motives, Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfillment leads her to shocking choices.
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Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Intelligence officers
Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Literature
Special operations (Military science)
Special operations (Military science) -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Spy stories
Thriller
Young women
Young women -- England -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Intelligence officers
Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Literature
Special operations (Military science)
Special operations (Military science) -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Spy stories
Thriller
Young women
Young women -- England -- Fiction
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subject_facet | Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction Historical fiction Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction Special operations (Military science) -- Great Britain -- Fiction Spy stories Young women -- England -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Tightrope | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Tightrope / Simon Mawer Tightrope A Novel Tightrope [electronic resource] / Simon Mawer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Tightrope | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | A Novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Fiction Historical Fiction History Intelligence officers Literature Special operations (Military science) Thriller Young women |