Like the work of John le Carré and Alan Furst, The Engineer is both a powerful and compelling thriller – and a thoroughly-researched snapshot of the era, giving the reader a detailed insight into the people and places, political and cultural climates, heroics and atrocities of the Second World War. And like the best of John le Carré, the novel is morally complex, with 'good' and 'evil' being relative, not absolute terms. The book - the first of a proposed trilogy known as Chronicles of Love and Honour - is undoubtedly complex and, in its unflinching condemnation of the British and American forces, highly controversial. Yet author Jan KuÅ›mirek expertly crafts the material to deliver an unashamedly intelligent work of historical fiction that serves as much as impassioned re-evaluation of the Polish war contribution as spy novel.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Tadek “Teddy” Labden is a young boy of Polish descent growing up in the idyllic but tough countryside near Calgary, Canada. He finds that try as he might he cannot escape his immigrant past and the mystery of his father's record in Eastern Europe.
The Engineer features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Action Adventure, Thriller and Suspense, General Fiction, Fiction
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The Engineer was written by Jan Kuśmirek and published by Derwen Publishing
