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Kane

Spoils of War, Book 10

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 Bloomsbury presents Kane by Graham Hurley, read by Andrew Cullum.

One man at the heart of American power must undertake a crucial wartime spy mission that will take him into enemy territory before he even leaves US soil.

Washington DC, 1941.

Quincy Kane, hero of the Boston Police Department and scourge of organised crime, is now a Secret Service agent. His meteoric rise means he’s trusted to guard the most important man in the country: President Roosevelt.

Then Imperial Japan attacks the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

For Kane, American entry to World War II means the most crucial mission of his career: a complex scheme of bribery and subterfuge that will see him cross the Atlantic. He could change the course of the conflict and save thousands of Allied lives.

First, though, he will have to survive a return to the world of organised crime via the City of Angels itself: Los Angeles, where every gangster has Quincy Kane in their crosshairs.

From award-winning author Graham Hurley, Kane is a thrilling part of the Spoils of War Collection, a non-chronological series set during World War II and featuring some of the most momentous stories and figures of the era.©2025 Graham Hurley (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 20th Century Action & Adventure Espionage Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Military Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense War & Military Crime War Exciting Boston
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I'm afraid this one I've struggled with or should I say I struggle with. Right from the start, the decision to use the present tense really grated with me. Had it been written in the first person, I could have perhaps lived with it, but I fail to understand how a novel dealing with historical fact benefits from a departure from the simple past tense.
Had the storyline gripped me, I could have forgiven all else, but the plot was as tepid and inconsequential as the love affair.
The typecast villain has appeared in similar form in many a novel and the final section is a total non-sequitur to the thrust of the book with its abrupt and unsatisfactory ending.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd have preferred an American narrator and not somebody who, at times, sounded remarkably like David Mitchell.
All in all, a disappointment from such a talented and versatile writer.

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