Chasing the Wind - Softcover

Humphreys, C.C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385690487 ISBN 13: 9780385690485

Verlag: Doubleday Canada, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Smuggler. Smoker. Aviatrix. Thief. The dynamic Roxy Loewen is all these things and more, in this riveting and gorgeous historical fiction novel for readers of Paula McLain, Roberta Rich, Kate Morton and Jacqueline Winspear.

You should never fall in love with a flyer. You should only fall in love with flight.

That's what Roxy Loewen always thought, until she falls for fellow pilot Jocco Zomack as they run guns into Ethiopia. Jocco may be a godless commie, but his father is a leading art dealer and he's found the original of Bruegel's famous painting, the Fall of Icarus. The trouble is, it's in Spain, a country slipping fast into civil war. The money's better than good--if Roxy can just get the painting to Berlin and back out again before Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring and his Nazi pals get their hands on it . . .

But this is 1936, and Hitler's Olympics are in full swing. Not only that, but Göring has teamed up with Roxy's greatest enemy: Sydney Munroe, an American billionaire responsible for the death of her beloved dad seven years before. When the Nazis steal the painting, Roxy and Jocco decide that they are just going to have to steal it back.

What happens when Icarus flies too close to the sun? Roxy is going to find out. From African skies to a cellar in Madrid, from the shadow cast by the swastika to the world above the clouds on the Hindenburg's last voyage, in the end Roxy will have just two choices left--but only one bullet.

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C.C. HUMPHREYS is a novelist, playwright, fight choreographer and actor, who has performed on stages from London's West End to Hollywood. Chris's first novel, The French Executioner, was runner-up for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller. Vlad: The Last Confession was an international bestseller. His recent novel Plague won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He also writes for young adults, his most recent novel being The Hunt of the Dragon.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Doubleday Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0385690487
• ISBN 13: 9780385690485
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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