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The Friday Spy
In the gilded heart of Nazi Berlin she was a woman corrupted by love a spy so valued she must be betrayed.
416 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
About the author
Christopher Nicole
229 books60 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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September 24, 2024
It was so bad but I couldn't stop reading it because of it? The concept was kind of there, but the writing was absolute trash. Rambled on far too long and was longer than it needed to be, asking weird internal monolog kind of questions and being so goddamn repetitive, repetitive, repetitive (whatever the triple repeating was trying to accomplish was actually just annoying). With her licking her lips and everyone touching her pubes. Also, EVERYONE *loves* Madeleine Duval Lee, Baroness von Hengstenberg, unless they're queer.. and even if they're queer! She's an American beauty, a femme fatale!
The first half I kept thinking how much of a stupid puppet she was. And the fact she was thrilled at orgasming when she was essentially a hired out prostitute for espionage.. kind of just weird. Hurray for female pleasure and autonomy, but sleeping with Nazis just isn't the right kink.. Then she got a little better when she actually became aware that she was dealing with Nazis and how horrendous the acts of war they were committing were and consciously chose to be a double agent. Made her slightly less intolerable. A good amount of history in the book though. Just unfortunately so badly written. No wonder this author used a bunch of pseudonyms.
The first half I kept thinking how much of a stupid puppet she was. And the fact she was thrilled at orgasming when she was essentially a hired out prostitute for espionage.. kind of just weird. Hurray for female pleasure and autonomy, but sleeping with Nazis just isn't the right kink.. Then she got a little better when she actually became aware that she was dealing with Nazis and how horrendous the acts of war they were committing were and consciously chose to be a double agent. Made her slightly less intolerable. A good amount of history in the book though. Just unfortunately so badly written. No wonder this author used a bunch of pseudonyms.
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