"Powerful and fascinating, the focus on the US entry into the Second World War hammers home with sharp precision."
Another knock-out of a read from Graham Hurley. HIs latest novel joins the non-chronological series The Spoils of War Collection where he sets fictional characters alongside some of the main players in the Second World War. This series is absolutely fascinating, it ranges in focus, location, and characters. While you are able to read this as a standalone, I would recommend reading the other novels, they really do allow you intimate access to this time in history. Kane sets sail for the other side of the Atlantic, and brings a Secret Service agent into play as the US and President Roosevelt learn about the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most of this novel, the war is a distance, something on the horizon, yet the importance of behind the scenes warfare plays out. Hurley successfully puts the humanity, the intimacy into the world stage of war, with Quincy Kane’s relationships featuring and allowing us to see who this man really is. This novel also shows how fear and ignorance joined with mob mentality can become a dangerous weapon in its own right. Fierce and provocative yet told with compassion, Kane takes another action-packed step in this fabulous series.
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One man at the heart of American power must undertake a crucial wartime mission that will take him into enemy territory before he even leaves US soil.
1941. Quincy Kane, former star of the Boston Police Department and scourge of organised crime, finds himself guarding the most important man in the country: President Roosevelt. Kane's trusted position reflects his meteoric rise in the Secret Service.
Then Imperial Japan attacks the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
For Kane, US entry to World War Two means he is soon tasked with the most crucial mission of his career: a complex scheme of bribery and subterfuge that could change the course of the conflict and save thousands of Allied lives.
To succeed, he will have to return to the world of organised crime, a web that is spun from the home of Hollywood, Tinseltown itself: Los Angeles, where every gangster has Quincy Kane in their crosshairs.
His mission is set to take him across the Atlantic... but first Kane must survive the City of Angels.
From award-winning author Graham Hurley, Kane is a thrilling part of the Spoils of War Collection, a non-chronological series set during World War II and featuring some of the most momentous stories and figures of the era.
Kane features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Action Adventure, Espionage and spy thriller, Historical Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, Second World War fiction, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Second World War fiction
Kane is available in Paperback, Hardback
Kane was written by Graham Hurley and published by Head of Zeus an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Kane has 418 pages
Yes it is part of The Spoils of War Collection series
£18.00
