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Rory Clements

Autor(a) de Martyr

20 Works 1,895 Membros 104 Críticas 2 Favorited

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Obras por Rory Clements

Martyr (2009) 520 exemplares
Revenger (2010) 247 exemplares
Prince (2011) 156 exemplares
Corpus (2016) 140 exemplares
Traitor (2012) 124 exemplares
The Heretics (2013) 117 exemplares
The Queen's Man (2014) 110 exemplares
Holy Spy (2015) 86 exemplares
Nucleus (2018) 80 exemplares
Hitler's Secret (2020) 70 exemplares
Nemesis (2019) 57 exemplares
A Prince and a Spy (2021) 51 exemplares
The Man in the Snow (2012) 50 exemplares
The Man in the Bunker (2022) 39 exemplares
The English Führer (2023) 36 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
England
UK
Local de nascimento
Dover, Kent, England, UK
Agente
Teresa Chris

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Rory Clements has had a long and successful newspaper career, including being features editor and associate editor of Today, editor of the Daily Mail's Good Health Pages, and editor of the health section at the Evening Standard. He now writes full-time in an idyllic corner of Norfolk, England.

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1582- Ist mission of John Shakespeare for Sir Francis Walsingham (Principle Secretary to the Queen of England). Set in the heart of a Judas nest of conspirators who threaten to bring down the monarchy; those who would see Queen Elizabeth deposed - or worse, murdered - and the 'true queen' Mary on the throne in her place. Shakespeare learns that traitors came in many forms. Good read.
 
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suewilsonphd | 3 outras críticas | Mar 22, 2024 |
Tensions in Elizabeth I government are at breaking point. Catholic Spain poised to invade, a plot to assassinate Francis Drake is uncovered. Intlligencer John Shakespear (brother of William) must protect him at all costs. Very well written, alive with the context of the period in London - bloody and brutish.
 
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suewilsonphd | 27 outras críticas | Mar 4, 2024 |
I think this is the best of Clements' books so far. Set in Munich in the 30s when Hitler was on the rise and hundreds of young, well-bred men and women, high-born, travelled to the city as a sort of finishing school/playground. What we enter is the underbelly of the rich and well-connected with Unity Mitford floating around hanging onto Hitler, Volkisch myths and legends and people with dark desires.

Into this steps Sebastian Wolff, a detective who does not follow the thinking about Jews or homosexuals, and who has been thrown into Dachau by the political police. He is rescued because a young English woman is murdered and he speaks fluent English due to his time working on board an English ship. There is always an added challenge and here he has to work with a new partner, the man who placed him in Dachau.

Clements gives his characters an interesting home life. Here Wolff has a son, Jurgen, who is a member of the Hitler Youth and can't understand why his father doesn't see the 'rightness' of their actions ending up in the relationship between father and son fractured. When Jurgen needs his help, it mends slightly but there are still the political differences between them. This must have been mirrored in families up and down the country at the time.

The book exemplifies rough justice throughout and that is how the crimes are resolved but that would be par for the course if one group of people is held to be 'superior' to another. What do you do with them when they obviously aren't? You use the thugs and your position of power, in this instance closeness to Hitler, to disappear people.

It almost feels like there is another book to follow because we don't really get to the point of knowing explicitly, who gave the orders at the end. It feels like it should be followed up in the next book but I think this is a standalone novel so maybe not. That's a pity because this was a good twisty, well-plotted story and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

You might also enjoy The Man in The bunker and The English Fuhrer.
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allthegoodbooks | 1 outra crítica | Feb 8, 2024 |
A young Englishwoman has been killed in a brutal and ritualistic way and Munich policeman Wolf has been put in charge of the case. He is shocked to find that his partner will be the SS Officer who only recently placed him in Dachau on trumped up charges. With the SS looking to discredit him, Wolf's family connections are the only thing keeping him on the streets. However when a man is wrongly convicted and executed for the crime, Wolf realises that to find the truth he will have to confront those at the heart of the Nazi Party.
I do really like Clements' writing as he manages to interweave great historical and political knowledge with a cracking plot and this is no exception. Staying with the theme of the rise of the Third Reich, he switches to Munich during the mid-1930s to create what is essentially a police procedural but one with a wonderfully evocative and troubling setting. This is a master thriller writer at the top of his game.
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pluckedhighbrow | 1 outra crítica | Feb 1, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
20
Membros
1,895
Popularidade
#13,581
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
104
ISBN
151
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
2

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