The Seventh Secret
by Irving Wallace
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Emily Ashcroft continues her father's work after his freakish death. He believed that Hitler and Braun survived and were now in Berlin. Emily is aided by a diverse group of people in her quest.Tags
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This is an old-fashioned "beach read." The first chapter is really good and gets you hooked. All through the story there is a lot of interesting information about the last days of Adolf Hitler; the plot revolves around an alternate history of those events. The presentation is plausible, the story takes place in real time (1985). The author uses real names, places and events both historical and current the reader will recognize. Our fictional heroes and villains on the other hand are the usual assortment of beautiful and resourceful paper dolls. Given all that, I did finish it, albeit rather quickly.
Intrigante, Bien ambientado, historico
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¿Es posible que Hitler y Eva Braun no murieran como se da por hecho? ¿Es posible que ella se pasee por el centro de BerlÃn bajo el nombre falso de Evelyn Hoffman? Harrison Ashcroft, un historiador, ha muerto en extrañas circunstancias cuando se disponÃa a descifrar esa incógnita. Ahora, su hija Emily toma su relevo y reemprende la investigación, con pocas pistas y sólo una premisa: para demostrar la autenticidad del presunto cadáver de Hitler es imprescindible la presencia de un amuleto que el dictador llevaba, con toda seguridad, cuando le sobrevino la muerte. En ese intento de recomponer la historia, Emily cruza sus caminos con el soviético interesado en la pintura de Hitler, caza-nazis judÃo y un arquitecto californiano. show more El descubrimiento del séptimo secreto sobrepasa las sospechas de todos ellos e infundirá al lector serias dudas sobre la historia que aprendió en los libros. show less
Mar 9, 2023Spanish
¿Es posible que Hitler no se hubiera suicidado en su bunker bajo un BerlÃn asediado por los aliados? ¿Eva Braun, amante del lÃder nazi, no se suicido con el? ¿Entonces por que una mujer identica a Eva Braun es vista años después de la caÃda del tercer reich? Con estos interrogantes empieza una emocionante novela en torno a la hipotética no muerte de Hitler, donde unos personajes con diferentes convicciones van en busca de respuestas, socavando pruebas y misterios a doquier.
Dec 25, 2010Spanish
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Grandes éxitos Planeta. Volumen 18
Jan 6, 2017Spanish
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Irving Wallace can be a crackling good storyteller; in "The Seventh Secret," he hooks you on the first page and holds you until the last--not an inconsiderable achievement. But it's not enough, alas--not nearly enough. Not when the writing is as wooden as Wallace's often is. Not when the plot depends as heavily on coincidence, contrivance and coyness as "The Seventh Secret" does. Not when the show more subject being mined has already been mined by virtually every pop novelist worth his gestalt. ... Perhaps the eighth secret is that Irving Wallace is not to be trusted with Important Topics. Or is that really a secret? show less
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Irving Wallace was born March 19, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing for various magazines at age 15 and worked as a screenwriter for a number of Hollywood studios---Columbia, Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal, and MGM from 1950 to 1959, then he turned solely to writing books. His first major bestseller was The Chapman Report in 1960, a show more fictional account of a sexual research team's investigations of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Among other fictional works by Wallace are The Prize and The Word. His meticulously researched fiction often has the flavor of spicy journalism. A great deal of research goes into his novels, which cover a wide variety of subjects, from the presentation of the Nobel Prize to political scenarios. With their recurring dramatic confrontations, his novels lend themselves well to screenplay adaptation, and most of them have been filmed, including The Chapman Report and The Prize. Wallace has also compiled several nonfiction works with his family, including The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, both of which have spawned sequels. Irving Wallace died June 29, 1990 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: King of the Golden Valley • The Hunt for Red October • This Giving Heart • The Seventh Secret by Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1986 v02: An Ark on The Flood / The Seventh Secret / Come Spring / Break In by John S. Zinsser, Jr.
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- El séptimo secreto
- Original title
- The Seventh Secret
- Original publication date
- 1986
- People/Characters
- Evelyn Hoffmann; Eva Braun; Emily Ashcroft; Sir Harrison Ashcroft; Adolf Hitler; Rex Foster (show all 9); Nicholas Kirvov; Tovah Levine; Wolfgang Schmidt
- Important places
- Berlin, Germany; Germany
- Epigraph
- Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. --Thomas Hardy
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Dedication
- For Sylvia Wallace my wife and Ed Victor my friend
- First words
- When he walked away from the small private room and the press conference, moved through the crowded Café Kranzler restaurant, and emerged onto the sun-drenched Kurfürstendamm, he felt highly elated.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Well, she is still with alone, with her mystery, and maybe she will be until the very end."
- Original language*
- Inglés
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