Shaina Steinberg

An Unquiet Peace (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets Code Name Verity in this propulsive, quick-witted mystery set in late-1940s Los Angeles, as former WWII spy Evelyn Bishop and LA noir detective Nick Gallagher team up as an unconventional duo . . . As an undercover operative for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, Evelyn Bishop routinely embarked on deadly missions. By contrast, civilian life should be simple. Yet Evelyn, now back in Los Angeles, struggles with the responsibility of being the new president of Bishop Aeronautics, when people see her as nothing more than a beautiful socialite. With Nick Gallagher, at least, Evelyn can be entirely herself. Once a fellow spy, now her fiancé, Nick works as a private investigator. But the mission that first brought them together is not over. Evelyn receives a call from her former commanding officer, who is overseeing the Berlin Airlift. He is concerned that the Soviets are trying to recruit Kurt Vogel, a scientist Evelyn and Nick smuggled out of Nazi Germany. After six long years, there's word his wife and daughter may have survived the war. Is this a chance for a long-promised reunion, or a Russian ploy to lure Vogel to their side? Past and present collide again when a routine case offers Nick a reunion with a childhood friend who runs a high-class "gentleman's club." The clientele includes everyone from Hollywood royalty to mobsters-to a hidden enemy who will draw both Evelyn and Nick into a web as twisted and treacherous as any they have ever faced . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496747839
• Artikelnr.: 72257572

Autorenporträt

Shaina Steinberg has a BA from Vassar and a master's from NYU where she studied the representation of war in art and literature. She has worked on such TV shows as Malcolm in the Middle, Everwood, Cold Case, Bionic Woman, and Spartacus. She was named to the Young and Hungry List in 2013 and the WriteHer List in 2017. Her most recent film, Bride Hard, stars Rebel Wilson.