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Death with Innocence
“Of course, it all came back to Dinah’s death, to the feeling that he’d failed her, hadn’t kept her safe, hadn’t been there. If he’d been a little less confident? If he’d put vengeance on one side and gone to her that night? The night she was murdered?”
For Peter Hill, the Second World War meant five years of clandestine life under diplomatic cover in Switzerland, contacting resistance groups inside occupied France and handling a key British source high in German military intelligence.
His survival owed much to the lesson given by the agent London had sent him to retrieve from France in 1940. ‘Always be watchful,’ she’d said, ‘And act relentlessly on what you see.’ That lesson became part of his secret life.
With peace, he needs it just as much. As the cold war in Europe deepens, London puts his intelligence skills to work against the Soviets in Berlin and Paris.
But peace also revives the guilt, pain and anger he’d suffered over the killing during the London blitz of the dark-eyed Dinah, the fugitive Soviet agent he loved and tried to save. Suppressed during the war, those emotions burst back, with all their destructive power.
Reaching out from her wartime grave, Dinah won’t let Peter go free. As he tries to exorcise her ghost, hidden forces work against him in London, while the NKVD officer Burenko who’d been Dinah’s Soviet controller moves menacingly back into his life.
Uncovering a strange truth about his wartime years, intent on unmasking the still active Whitehall spy ring Dinah had run for Moscow, playing cat and mouse with Burenko, Peter will test to the utmost his ability to be watchful and to act relentlessly on what he sees. But act he must to free himself from his guilt and unmask Dinah’s Whitehall spies.
Death with Innocence is the sequel to Innocence to Die For.
'An emotive, page-turning thriller' - Thomas Waugh
John Eidinow was a presenter for BBC Radio 4 and World Service radio, working in news and current affairs and making documentaries on historical and contemporary issues. He read law at Cambridge, qualifying as a barrister and practising, briefly, in London. Two years’ National Service in the army saw him learn Russian.
John has also published three books with his co-author David Edmonds, each describing epic clashes between men of titanic Wittgenstein’s Poker, Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Rousseau’s Dog .
For Peter Hill, the Second World War meant five years of clandestine life under diplomatic cover in Switzerland, contacting resistance groups inside occupied France and handling a key British source high in German military intelligence.
His survival owed much to the lesson given by the agent London had sent him to retrieve from France in 1940. ‘Always be watchful,’ she’d said, ‘And act relentlessly on what you see.’ That lesson became part of his secret life.
With peace, he needs it just as much. As the cold war in Europe deepens, London puts his intelligence skills to work against the Soviets in Berlin and Paris.
But peace also revives the guilt, pain and anger he’d suffered over the killing during the London blitz of the dark-eyed Dinah, the fugitive Soviet agent he loved and tried to save. Suppressed during the war, those emotions burst back, with all their destructive power.
Reaching out from her wartime grave, Dinah won’t let Peter go free. As he tries to exorcise her ghost, hidden forces work against him in London, while the NKVD officer Burenko who’d been Dinah’s Soviet controller moves menacingly back into his life.
Uncovering a strange truth about his wartime years, intent on unmasking the still active Whitehall spy ring Dinah had run for Moscow, playing cat and mouse with Burenko, Peter will test to the utmost his ability to be watchful and to act relentlessly on what he sees. But act he must to free himself from his guilt and unmask Dinah’s Whitehall spies.
Death with Innocence is the sequel to Innocence to Die For.
'An emotive, page-turning thriller' - Thomas Waugh
John Eidinow was a presenter for BBC Radio 4 and World Service radio, working in news and current affairs and making documentaries on historical and contemporary issues. He read law at Cambridge, qualifying as a barrister and practising, briefly, in London. Two years’ National Service in the army saw him learn Russian.
John has also published three books with his co-author David Edmonds, each describing epic clashes between men of titanic Wittgenstein’s Poker, Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Rousseau’s Dog .
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Published August 16, 2017
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John Eidinow
10 books11 followersJohn Eidinow has published three books with his co-author David Edmonds, each describing knock-down, drag-out clashes between men of titanic gifts: “Wittgenstein’s Poker” (Random House) which was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and translated into over thirty languages; “Bobby Fischer Goes to War” (Faber & Faber) which was long listed for the Samuel Johnson prize; and “Rousseau’s Dog” (Faber & Faber).
He was a presenter/interviewer for BBC Radio 4 and World Service radio, working in news and current affairs and making documentaries on historical and contemporary issues.
“Another Day”, a tale of love, deceit and espionage in the opening months of the Second World War, is his first novel.
He was a presenter/interviewer for BBC Radio 4 and World Service radio, working in news and current affairs and making documentaries on historical and contemporary issues.
“Another Day”, a tale of love, deceit and espionage in the opening months of the Second World War, is his first novel.
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September 8, 2017
Superb.
An absolutely superb read, the best book I have read this year. My only disappointment is the fact that I did not read the first Peter Hill book, not that it spoiled the reading of Death With Innocence, but that the author did such a great job with the flash backs that I feel that I don't really need to read it now, although I will.
The early part of what would become the Cold War is brilliantly brought to life, as is the condition of post war Britain and its class structure, but the greatest success of the book is the journey of Peter Hill through the political minefield of war weary Europe.
This is a book that demands your concentration, but which rewards you with a beautifully elegant read, filled with characters that and storylines that hopefully will resurface in the final episode of a trilogy.
An absolutely superb read, the best book I have read this year. My only disappointment is the fact that I did not read the first Peter Hill book, not that it spoiled the reading of Death With Innocence, but that the author did such a great job with the flash backs that I feel that I don't really need to read it now, although I will.
The early part of what would become the Cold War is brilliantly brought to life, as is the condition of post war Britain and its class structure, but the greatest success of the book is the journey of Peter Hill through the political minefield of war weary Europe.
This is a book that demands your concentration, but which rewards you with a beautifully elegant read, filled with characters that and storylines that hopefully will resurface in the final episode of a trilogy.
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