Visibility (edition 2011)

by Boris Starling

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Title:	Visibility
Authors:	Boris Starling
Info:	Harper (2011), Paperback, 496 pages
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austcrimefiction | Dec 11, 2007 |

A very good book combining espionage and murder set in post-war London during the great smog of 1952. A good attempt to portray life in post-war London, and particularly the smogs. In his Afterword the author refers to the last London smog of 1962 - I can still remember that one. (

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Herbert Smith

Linus Pauling

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London, England, UK

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The fog was coming, without and within.

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The New York Times bestselling author of Vodka and Messiah London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim's final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich. REIVEW: "a smart bracing look at the legacy of Nazi scientific dreams." -Seattle Times "This is how thrillers should be done." -Baltimore Sun "Topnotch espionage." -Library Journal "Wonderfully unpredictable twists." -Guardian

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Having traded MI5 for New Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Herbert Smith thinks he's left the murky world of espionage behind him - until he begins retracing the final footsteps of Max Stensness. Suddenly he's being tailed, thinly veiled threats are issued, danger lurks at every turn in the investigation.… (more)

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