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Arabesque Kindle Edition

by Geoffrey Household (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
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In war-torn Lebanon, a beautiful French woman fights a war of spy versus spy

There is no privacy in Beirut. In the hotel lobbies and high-class bars of this beautiful Eastern capital, intelligencers of every stripe hide in plain sight: British spies and Nazi moles, Free French operatives and the lackeys of Vichy France. Stalin has his men here, as do the Zionists who would turn British Palestine into a haven for the Jewish people. There are agents of every race, gender, and nationality—and they are all at one another’s throats. Armande Herne is not one of them—but she will be soon enough.
 
A French woman raised in England, Armande came to Beirut after her husband joined the navy. When the French army hands the city over to the British, an arms deal draws Armande into the shadowy side of this city of intrigue, taking her on a desert adventure that will change the war—or leave her dead in the sand.
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  4. Publisher
    Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
  5. Publication date
    April 7, 2015
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00TQEM1ZS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (April 7, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 7, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3494 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

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Geoffrey Household

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Geoffrey Household (1900—1988) was born in Bristol and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He worked all over the world, including Eastern Europe, the US, the Middle East and South America as, among other things, a banker, a salesman, and an encyclopedia writer. He served in British intelligence in World War II. His other works include A Rough Shoot, Watcher in the Shadows, Rogue Justice and an autobiography, Against the Wind.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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TB
4.0 out of 5 stars ...rather like an early draft of a John Le Carre novel
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2015
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This novel, set in the Near East during World War II, follows the events in the life of Armande, a pretty British woman of French extraction, as her husband goes off to war, and she is left in Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt to make her own way. The bad news is that the novel is maddeningly episodic, and the reader wants to know where we're going with the plot. The good news is that it's nicely textured and well-informed about that neck of the woods in the pre-Israel days. Characters are excellent, and the writing is of nearly literary quality. It is rather like an early draft of a John Le Carre novel -- a draft that needs work on tension and suspense.
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