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  • By: Joe Joyce
  • Narrated by: Kevin Hely
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)
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Summary

Some see Britain as an ally; others look to Germany for a hopeful future while some wish to remain as neutral as possible. In this atmosphere of edgy uncertainty, a young lieutenant, Paul Duggan, is drafted into the army's intelligence division, G2, and put on the German desk.

Paul delves into the double-dealing worlds of spies and politics, where ruthlessness, deviousness and occasional violence prevail, before confronting a surprising secret that challenges everything he has grown up believing.

©2013 Joe Joyce (P)2016 W F Howes Ltd

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"Brilliantly portrays the divided atmosphere at the time, full of edgy uncertainty." ( Irish Independent)

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narrator is excellent

I thought it was very atmospheric and captured that point in history in Ireland. The narrator was really excellent, I will definitely look out for him again.

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Lovely slow burn

It’s one of those stories that goes nowhere and everywhere. Great banter in an Irish style that I can listen to endlessly.

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I thought it was very atmospheric and captured the history of potential war in Ireland. At times I found it a little heavy but informative.

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Taught insight into the time

A really good spy story with insight into the time and place, which I knew nothing about.

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Perspective

Good time capsule story at the beginnings of WW2 ireland and the complexities of family and politics

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Wartime Ireland and spies

Strong story well written and well told. Security services in neutral Ireland stuck between Britain, Germany, The IRA and their own government.

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Fantastic book - really engaging and historically accurate

Highly recommend this book
Really gives a sense of time - and also all the uncertainty of “the emergency”

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