The Unquiet Heart: 02 (Danny McRae Series)

by Gordon Ferris (Author), Gordon Ferris (Author)

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Hardcover
2011
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LONDON AND BERLIN, 1946
The perfect partnership - gang-busters by day, lovers by night...
Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London.
Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new angles to save her career.
It's an alliance made in heaven.
Until Eve disappears, a contact dies violently and an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths.
His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers, double agents and assassins, and hurls him into the shattered remains of Berlin, where terrorism and espionage foreshadow the bleakness of the Cold War. And Danny begins to lose sight of the thin line between good and evil...

Synopsis

LONDON AND BERLIN, 1946

The perfect partnership - gang-busters by day, lovers by night...

Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London.
Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new angles to save her career.

It's an alliance made in heaven.

Until Eve disappears, a contact dies violently and an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths.

His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers, double agents and assassins, and hurls him into the shattered remains of Berlin, where terrorism and espionage foreshadow the bleakness of the Cold War. And Danny begins to lose sight of the thin line between good and evil...

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Corvus
Published: 01 Dec 2011
ISBN 10: 0857894943
ISBN 13: 9780857894946
Book Overview: From the bestselling author of The Hanging Shed comes the sequel to chart-topping Truth Dare Kill. Danny McRae, ex-SOE agent, returns to post-war London and Berlin as he tries to put his shattered life back together. 'The new Ian Rankin' - Daily Mail

Media Reviews

The word-of-mouth hit that is leaving its fellow thrillers in its wake. Ferris is a wonderfully evocative writer. * Observer *
Ferris is a writer of real authority, immersing the reader into his nightmare world... everything speaks of an original voice. * Independent *
The rising star of Scottish literature. * Scotsman *
Every now and then you come across a writer and wonder how on earth you haven't read their books before... Mr Ferris has confirmed himself as an exciting and original voice in the crime noir genre. * New York Journal of Books *

Author Bio

Gordon Ferris is an ex-techy in the Ministry of Defence and an ex-partner in one of the Big Four accountancy firms. He is the author of the No. 1 bestselling e-book The Hanging Shed.