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Alan Bardos
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Who ordered the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
There are two basic schools of thought about the origins of the plot to assassinate Franz Ferdinand. The first is that it was ordered by Colonel ‘Apis’ Dimitrijevic, the head of Serbian Intelligence, to stop Austro-Hungarian interference in the Balkans and allow Serbian expansion. The assassination was organised by his deputy Major Vojislav Tankosic; who recruited the assassins, trained and armed
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| Dead in the Water continues Mark Ellis’ excellent Frank Merlin series, set in WWII London. August 1942 and Frank Merlin a Police detective with the soul of a poet, investigates two murder investigations that involve him in the shadowy world of stolen ...more | |
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| Target Arnhem picks up where Operation Codicil, the first book in John McKay’s The Manner of Men series ended. After surviving D-day and the bloody attritional fighting to breakout of the Normandy beachhead, Sargent Harris and his team of elite pathf ...more | |
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| Having enjoyed R.N. Morris’s ‘Empire of Shadows’ series featuring Magistrate Pavel Pavlovich Virginsky, I was keen to read Morris’s ‘Porfiry Petrovich Mysteries’ series where Virginsky is introduced and was not disappointed. In ‘A Gentle Axe’ R.N. Mo ...more | |
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| The Loyal Friend is a sophisticated story of deception and revenge, seen through the eyes of three principal characters, who are outwardly linked by their fitness class. They all have their own agendas and are all unreliable narrators. As a result of ...more | |
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| Roger A Price continues his Badge and the Pen series with a real show stopper and creates a noir all his own set in Preston. His characters are subtlety ambiguous, enabling the reader to both sympathise and revile them without, losing sight of the fa ...more | |
“The lead car in the motorcade was only a few yards away, but he didn’t know which car the tyrant was in. He saw a policeman watching the approaching procession and asked him. ‘The third car,’ the policeman answered, as excited by the scene as everyone else. Nedjo could see lime green feathers above the third car and knew it was the tyrant. He took the bomb from under his jacket and aimed for the feathers. Today he would prove that he was no traitor.”
― The Assassins
― The Assassins
“He’d read somewhere that Australian Aborigines used stories to find their way through the bewildering landscape of the outback, each tree and mountain becoming a signpost with its own story passed down from generation to generation, telling the way home. Johnny had developed a similar method to find his way through the bewildering landscape of women.”
― The Assassins
― The Assassins
“Oh, really, Johnny. You’ll be calling yourself a gentleman next.’ She finished putting on the cufflinks and began to struggle with his collar. Johnny grinned and attempted a West Country burr. He liked to play at being the humble servant to her corrupting mistress of the house. ‘I ain’t no gentleman, right and proper. Just a humble civil servant true enough, but I’m the best you’ll ever get.’ ‘That blatantly isn’t true, is it, Johnny?’ Libby smiled patiently.”
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“Anyway, I apologise. My name is Jonathan Swift, but you can call me Johnny.’ ‘Johnny,’ she repeated with a smile. He liked the way she said his name, full with the richness of European culture and sophistication. It was as if she was trying something new and foreign, and she liked it.”
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“He’d read somewhere that Australian Aborigines used stories to find their way through the bewildering landscape of the outback, each tree and mountain becoming a signpost with its own story passed down from generation to generation, telling the way home. Johnny had developed a similar method to find his way through the bewildering landscape of women.”
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“Her Highness has made a number of worthy visits in Sarajevo. The people can’t say we have forgotten them,’ the archduke added decisively, and that looked to be the end of the matter. He would not visit Sarajevo – in his own mind, Franz Ferdinand was already on holiday with his children. Breitner started to congratulate himself on a job well done. Then Lieutenant Colonel von Merizzi came to the fore. ‘If I may interject, Your Highness?”
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“The lead car in the motorcade was only a few yards away, but he didn’t know which car the tyrant was in. He saw a policeman watching the approaching procession and asked him. ‘The third car,’ the policeman answered, as excited by the scene as everyone else. Nedjo could see lime green feathers above the third car and knew it was the tyrant. He took the bomb from under his jacket and aimed for the feathers. Today he would prove that he was no traitor.”
― The Assassins
― The Assassins
“Much to Johnny’s disappointment, she fended him off as he fumbled with the fastenings of her dress. ‘Johnny, we haven’t got time for this nonsense. I’ve got so much to tell you. I’ve had an incredible week touring Sarajevo’s brothels and gambling dens.’ ‘So you haven’t actually been “scouring the streets” looking for me?’ he asked sarcastically. It didn’t surprise him. ‘Don’t be a bore. Where else was I going to look for you?”
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