Resistance And Suspicion In Occupied Rome Collide
Joseph O'Connor returns to wartime Rome with a novel full of danger, intrigue and atmosphere. As Contessa Giovanna Landini smuggles Allied soldiers to safety, a mysterious arrival threatens everything, making this a rich, gripping read for fans of resistance fiction with style.
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Resistance And Suspicion In Occupied Rome Collide
Joseph O'Connor returns to wartime Rome with a novel full of danger, intrigue and atmosphere. As Contessa Giovanna Landini smuggles Allied soldiers to safety, a mysterious arrival threatens everything, making this a rich, gripping read for fans of resistance fiction with style.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Read wartime fiction for resistance, danger and moral courage.
- Are drawn to espionage plots where one stranger can upend everything.
- Would be gripped by Nazi-occupied Rome and the perilous work of the Escape Line.
- Prefer historical novels that are tense, elegant and emotionally charged.
'As thrilling, beautiful and sensational a novel as you'll read this year or any year' Sunday Times
February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the war-torn city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini works for the band of Escape Line activists known as 'the Choir'.
Her mission is to smuggle Allied soldiers to safety, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann.
During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.
Meanwhile, Hauptmann's attention has landed on the Contessa. As his fascination grows, she is pulled into a dangerous game with him, one where the consequences could be lethal.
Praise:
'thrilling, terrifying and entertaining' Liz Nugent
'Vivid and moving' Guardian
'A stellar piece of storytelling' Daily Mail
'Not just a wartime thriller, but a meditation on how we remember, how we resist and how, even in the darkest times, humanity endures' New York Times
- About The Author
- JOSEPH O'CONNOR was born in Dublin. His books include Cowboys and Indians, Inishowen, Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award, Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year), Redemption Falls, Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011), Shadowplay (Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Costa Novel of the Year shortlist) and his Rome Escape Line Trilogy novels, My Father's House, The Ghosts of Rome (Irish Book Awards Book of the Year) and The City of Echoes. His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781529967029
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage, (11 December 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 367
- Weight
- 282 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 130 x 26 mm
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