| Record Number |
807323 |
| ISBN |
9781472257246 (hardback) |
| Author |
Perry, Anne author. |
| Title |
Death in focus / Anne Perry. |
| Publisher/Date |
London, England : Headline, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Pagination etc. |
356 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Elena Standish 1 |
| Contents note |
"Who can be trusted in a world of fear?"--Front cover. |
| Summary Note |
The world is on the brink of war and no one is to be trusted as young photographer Elena Standish becomes embroiled in a terrifying game of cat and mouse... It is 1933 and Europe is a place of increasing fear and violence. Young British photographer Elena Standish is on assignment in Amalfi when she meets Ian Newton, a charming Englishman with whom she falls in love. But what does she really know about him? Accompanying him on a train across Italy to Paris, she finds him critically stabbed and dying. He tells her he is a member of Britain's Secret Service, on his way to Berlin to warn MI6 so that they can foil a plot to assassinate one of Hitler's vilest henchmen and blame Britain for it, thus causing a devastating diplomatic crisis. Elena promises to deliver the message. But she is too late, and finds herself fleeing for her life. Meanwhile Lucas Standish, secret head of MI6 during the war, learns that his beloved granddaughter is being hunted in Berlin for murder. With Elena on the run, and at least one traitor in the British Embassy, it is impossible to know who to trust... |
| Subject - Name |
Standish, Elena(Fictitious character)Fiction |
| Subject |
Great Britain. -- MI6 -- Fiction |
| Survival -- Fiction |
| Traitors -- Fiction |
| Conspiracies -- Europe -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Women photographers -- Europe -- Fiction |
| Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction |
| Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Spy fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F PERR |
