Espionage and spy thriller

Trade ReviewHere's an answer for the multitude of readers demanding a good story, adventure, mystery [and] romance * Kirkus *

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Trade ReviewAn intricate story of international counterespionage; an adventure tale which carries one breathless through its ramifications; a romance with a happy ending * Kirkus *

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Book SynopsisIn the beautiful countryside of Portugal, erstwhile British secret agent Julia Probyn is to attend a royal wedding. But her former acquaintance, Countess Hetta Páloczy, the young Hungarian refugee, unwittingly gets them both tangled in Cold War intrigue. After Hetta accidentally uncovers a Communist plot to assassinate an American admiral in Spain, she is a marked woman yet again and must flee to Portugal. But even in the tranquil beauty of Gralheira, peril lurks. Unluckily for the assassins, these women are no strangers to danger.In The Episode at Toledo, book six in the series, Julia is joined by Hetta and Luzia, uniting all our heroines from The Julia Probyn Mysteries.Trade ReviewHere's an answer for the multitude of readers demanding a good story, adventure, mystery [and] romance * Kirkus *

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Book SynopsisThis epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China’s Communist revolution is “an excellent read, panoramic in scope” (Financial Times). In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world’s largest nation from Communism. But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long March, Jakob becomes entangled with Mei-ling, a beautiful and fervent revolutionary. Soon, powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith—and entrap him forever in the vast country’s tortured destiny. Once held hostage by Red Guards in Peking for more than two years, author Anthony Grey traces the path of China’s Communist party from its covert inception through purge and revolution. He crafts a portrait of China as a land of great beauty and harshness—of triumph and tragedy—in a sweeping narrative, rich in historical and cultural revelations. Trade Review“Well-written and exciting.” —Library Journal “A magnificent epic novel of modern China . . . The book is worth reading solely as a factual reminder of the chaos and calamity of China, as a quarter of the world’s people struggled and suffered toward modernity in the stormy and cruel decades between 1920 and 1980.” —Toronto Star “Skillfully narrated, the book is a parable of China and the West’s love affair with it.” —Far Eastern Economic Review “Anthony Grey’s gripping fiction, based on meticulously attributed sources, is part epic, part blockbuster. . . . A moving chronicle.” —The Times (London) “Grey’s depth of feeling makes Peking a compelling epic.” —The Sunday Telegraph “Outstanding . . . Balance, sanity, serenity and realized human love in the face of a shifting and violent and mostly hateful world.” —The Sunday Record

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