Hands of the Pianist

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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'The Hands of thePianist' tells the thrilling story of Charles Vincent, a talented pianist fromthe French countryside, who is inveigled into the English Secret Intelligence Service. It is 1939 and, as war threatens to engulf Paris, he becomes involvedin the Resistance in France. Escapingthe Nazis' tightening net, he travels across the Pyrenees arriving inspy-ridden Lisbon. Returning to London by destroyer, he is entrusted with amission to Leningrad to assist the Russians. There he discovers whom he can andcannot trust, before catastrophe threatens his classical musical debut atLondon's Albert Hall.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-19
Mått129 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt226 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagThe Conrad Press
ISBN9781917673433

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