Corpus Beginnings

by Rory Clements

Genres: Short Stories, Historical Fiction

19 pages, ebook

About the author

Rory Clements has had a long and successful newspaper career, including being features editor and associate editor of Today, editor of the Daily Mail's Good Health Pages, and editor of the health section at the Evening Standard. He now writes full-time in an idyllic corner of Norfolk, England.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just about to crack on with Corpus so ideally placed to return to this short story to help set the scene and begin my journey through the Tom Wilde series.

The book reminded me more of elements in the standalone Munich Wolf as the action in this prequel to Corpus is centred on Hitler’s power base in 1936, Munich.

No mention of Wilde but we are introduced to Hartmut Dorfen a loyal SS man. A young ambitious officer beloved by the Führer who almost considers him his own son.

Hitler has plans to keep Britain on side and this challenging mission is to be undertaken by Dorfen; you could hardly refuse such a commission, now could you?

I loved the sense of place and time. The fear and power that is associated with the supreme leader of the new German Reich. So much history and Nazi dogma is conveyed in just a few pages here. I loved the time filling episode, carrying out one’s duty to the Fatherland in the Lebensborn programme.

My appetite suitably whetted I am ready for the novel that takes up this story and introduces us to Tom Wilde.

[Cathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Very) short story that acts as a prelude to Corpus, the spy thriller that introduced Cambridge Professor Tom Wilde to the world