Tightrope
(eAudiobook)
This captivating historical thriller 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 Ravensbruck 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.
Notes
Mawer, S., & Reading, K. (2016). Tightrope. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Mawer, Simon and Kate, Reading. 2016. Tightrope. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Mawer, Simon and Kate, Reading, Tightrope. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Mawer, Simon, and Kate Reading. Tightrope. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2016.
Hoopla Extract Information
hooplaId | 11482493 |
---|---|
title | Tightrope |
kind | AUDIOBOOK |
price | 2.99 |
active | 1 |
pa | 0 |
profanity | 0 |
children | 0 |
demo | 0 |
rating | |
abridged | 0 |
dateLastUpdated | Jun 16, 2020 12:09:24 AM |
Record Information
Last File Modification Time | Nov 23, 2023 03:01:08 AM |
---|---|
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Apr 19, 2024 02:10:42 AM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 03187nim a22004575a 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | MWT11482493 | ||
003 | MWT | ||
005 | 20231027044217.0 | ||
006 | m o h | ||
007 | sz zunnnnnuned | ||
007 | cr nnannnuuuua | ||
008 | 231027o2016 xxunnn eo f n eng d | ||
020 | |a 9781982485924|q (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) | ||
020 | |a 1982485922|q (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) | ||
028 | 4 | 2 | |a MWT11482493 |
029 | |a https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/bsa_9781504635677_180.jpeg | ||
037 | |a 11482493|b Midwest Tape, LLC|n http://www.midwesttapes.com | ||
040 | |a Midwest|e rda | ||
099 | |a eAudiobook hoopla | ||
100 | 1 | |a Mawer, Simon,|e author. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Tightrope|h [electronic resource] /|c Simon Mawer. |
250 | |a Unabridged. | ||
264 | 1 | |a [United States] :|b Blackstone Publishing,|c 2016. | |
264 | 2 | |b Made available through hoopla | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 14 min.)) :|b digital. | ||
336 | |a spoken word|b spw|2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer|b c|2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource|b cr|2 rdacarrier | ||
344 | |a digital|h digital recording|2 rda | ||
347 | |a data file|2 rda | ||
506 | |a Instant title available through hoopla. | ||
511 | 1 | |a Read by Kate Reading. | |
520 | |a This captivating historical thriller 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 Ravensbruck 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. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Espionage|v Fiction. | |
655 | 7 | |a Detective and mystery fiction.|2 lcgft | |
655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction.|2 lcgft | |
700 | 1 | |a Reading, Kate,|e reader. | |
710 | 2 | |a hoopla digital. | |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11482493?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435|z Instantly available on hoopla. |
856 | 4 | 2 | |z Cover image|u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/bsa_9781504635677_180.jpeg |