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The Information Officer: A Novel
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In the summer of 1942, Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta to bolster the population’s fragile esprit de corps, as the small windswept island endures relentless Axis air raids. The fiercely independent Maltese, and a few broken-down fighter planes, are all that stand in the face of Nazi occupation and perhaps even victory—for Malta is the stepping-stone the Germans need between Europe and North Africa.
When Max learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman—along with evidence that the crime may have been committed by a British officer—he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered. Max must investigate the murder—beyond the gaze of his superiors, friends, and even the woman he loves—as the clock ticks down toward all-out invasion.
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In the summer of 1942, Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta to bolster the population’s fragile esprit de corps, as the small windswept island endures relentless Axis air raids. The fiercely independent Maltese, and a few broken-down fighter planes, are all that stand in the face of Nazi occupation and perhaps even victory—for Malta is the stepping-stone the Germans need between Europe and North Africa.
When Max learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman—along with evidence that the crime may have been committed by a British officer—he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered. Max must investigate the murder—beyond the gaze of his superiors, friends, and even the woman he loves—as the clock ticks down toward all-out invasion.
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      • source: Los Angeles Times
      • content: "It's only a story. It's only a story. It's only. . . . But the sense of immediacy Mark Mills brings to The Information Officer is so intense that this breathtaking novel reads more like a memoir than a wartime thriller...Even without the added complication of a sadistic murderer, the tension is killing – and Mills leaves us gasping for breath at the end."
        –New York Times Book Review

        "Thrilling... magnificent entertainment... this utterly ravishing novel seethes with femmes fatales and double agents
        ... reads like the story of Casablanca revisited, like a vanished Graham Greene."
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      • source: Newark Star-Ledger
      • content: "[Mills's] writing, laced with amusing classical English literary allusions and mixed with a bit of Virgil, is graceful and fluid, the research scrupulous."
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      • source: Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
      • content: "Mark Mills is a superb writer, and The Information Officer is a superb read."
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      • source: Olen Steinhauer, author of The Tourist
      • content: "The Information Officer ratchets up the tension with each page, leading to a pulse-pounding climax that will remain with you long after the tale has ended. Wartime Malta comes alive in this meticulously researched and beautifully written portrait of an island on the edge."
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      • source: William Boyd, author of Restless
      • content: "A forgotten corner of World War II rediscovered and expertly revealed to us. Fascinating and shrewdly compelling--Mark Mills does it again."
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      • source: George Pelecanos, author of The Way Home
      • content: "A lush, romantic thriller, skillfully crafted by master stylist Mark Mills."
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      • source: David Liss, author of The Devil's Company
      • content: "The Information Officer is both great historical fiction and a first-rate thriller. Mark Mills has taken a harrowing and often-forgotten conflict, populated it with believable and compelling characters, and then turned up the heat. This is a novel that works on every level."
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        December 7, 2009
        The prolonged and intense Axis bombing of Malta and the British efforts to deliver squadrons of new Spitfire fighters in aid of the strategic Mediterranean island's defense provide the dramatic backdrop for Mills's WWII spy thriller. Maj. Max Chadwick negotiates a narrow path feeding info via his weekly bulletin in the Maltese newspaper Il-Berqa
        , putting a positive spin on Malta's depressing situation, and seeking to separate rumor from fact. When Chadwick learns that a British submariner may be a serial killer targeting “sherry queens” (e.g., “dance hostesses who worked the bars and bawdy music halls” in the capital city's disreputable quarter), he has to consider carefully what to reveal. If the murders become public, they could tip the precarious balance of local support against the British. Mills (Amagansett
        ) paints a vivid portrait of a tenacious people, embattled and besieged troops, and a principled man trying to resolve the conflict between duty and justice.

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        It's Malta, 1942, and the Germans are battering the small, strategic island in an effort to dominate the Mediterranean theater. Max Chadwick is the RAF morale and information officer charged with maintaining the fragile esprit de corps of the island's woefully underresourced British contingent and feeding the local press with cautiously optimistic updates on the war effort. The bombings are relentless, and life is perilous. The eternal promises of new planes and reinforcements ring hollow. When a young Maltese woman is murdered and local investigation points to a British serviceman, Chadwick must walk a tightrope to preserve the peace with the locals, the cohesion of the local British forces, and his own career. VERDICT Once again, Mills ("Amagansett; Savage Garden") has crafted a story filled with rich history, tension, and characters whose frailties and strengths move the plot along at a taut and satisfying pace. World War II fiction readers will love it, and mystery fans will find much to pique their interest as well. Strongly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 10/1/09.]Susan Clifford Braun, Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA

        Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        December 15, 2009
        Mills is as versatile as he is talented. His first novel, Amagansett (2004), starred a Basque fisherman on Long Island; he followed that with The Savage Garden (2007), about an art historian investigating a murder in Renaissance Tuscany. Now he turns to World War II and the siege of Malta, that dust-blown lump of limestone in the middle of the Mediterranean on which the Germans dumped more bombs in two months than London received in the worst year of the Blitz. As the bombs rain down, British information officer Max Chadwick faces a dilemma: Should he cover up the fact that a serial killer who preys on exotic dancers may well be a navy manand possibly one who serves aboard a submarine captained by Chadwicks mistress? Like James Benn in his Billy Boyle series, Mills makes excellent use of a lesser-known aspect of WWII, but unlike Benn, he is a fine stylist as well as a storyteller, enabling him to bring a remarkable degree of eloquence and emotional depth to his material. As historical fiction, as mystery, and as love story, this one hits on all cylinders.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

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