Cold Water

by Dave Hutchinson

Series: The Fractured Europe Sequence (5)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML: To uncover the truth, you must risk everything When Carey Tews retired from Les Coureurs - the clandestine organisation of high-risk smugglers - she swore she'd never go back. Her cover in Hungary was blown, and even if she could have returned, she wouldn't. That is, until an old friend and lover is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Back for one last job in a Europe fractured into a hundred tiny principalities, with civil unrest and political instability the norm, she must navigate local authorities, rogue operatives and Russian spies. What she doesn't know is that the investigation will take her to places she couldn't even imagine. .… (more)

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Maybe I’m getting old but I found this a difficult read. Three separate female POV characters, operating in different years (we eventually discover) plus flashbacks of their earlier lives, often without quick identification of whose story we are following. It would all be much clearer on a second read, but I’m not sure I want to do that.

Still, that aside, it’s an interesting enough extension of Hutchinson’s Fractured Europe scenario. (

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davidrgrigg | Mar 23, 2024 |

I found it confusing and less engaging than his previous Fractured Europe novels, with too many disparate threads and flashbacks, and vast numbers of characters popping in and out. Also, the le Carré type spycraft got a bit wearing.
OK but not his best. (

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SChant | Jun 17, 2023 |

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:

To uncover the truth, you must risk everything

When Carey Tews retired from Les Coureurs - the clandestine organisation of high-risk smugglers - she swore she'd never go back. Her cover in Hungary was blown, and even if she could have returned, she wouldn't. That is, until an old friend and lover is found dead in mysterious circumstances.

Back for one last job in a Europe fractured into a hundred tiny principalities, with civil unrest and political instability the norm, she must navigate local authorities, rogue operatives and Russian spies.

What she doesn't know is that the investigation will take her to places she couldn't even imagine.

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