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The Ghosts Of Rome: (2 Rome Escape Line)

The Ghosts Of Rome: (2 Rome Escape Line)


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'The tension doesn’t slack an inch… It is haunting, sensuous and immaculately constructed — without sacrificing any thrills' Sunday Times, *Best Beach Reads of 2025* February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann. During a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk. Meanwhile, Hauptmann’s attention has landed on the Contessa. As his fascination grows, she is pulled into a dangerous game with him – one where the consequences could be lethal. 'As thrilling, beautiful and sensational a novel as you'll read this year or any year' Donal Ryan, Sunday Times 'Vivid and moving' Guardian ‘A stellar piece of storytelling’ Daily Mail 'Not just a wartime thriller, but a meditation on how we remember, how we resist and how, even in the darkest times, humanity endures' New York Times 'Excellent...rings so emotionally true and clear... The writing has the energy and tension of a thriller, yet the language is rich, visual and beautiful' Sunday Independent 'Thrilling, terrifying and entertaining in equal measure' Liz Nugent, Number One Bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond

About the Author :
Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeline Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com

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The tension doesn’t slack an inch… It is haunting, sensuous and immaculately constructed — without sacrificing any thrills [A] vivid and moving story, with O’Connor seamlessly combining real characters with imagined ones The Ghosts of Rome is both a tribute to the imagination and courage of his remarkable team [of The Escape Line] and a riveting thriller There is no finer writer of historical fiction than Joseph O’Connor. . . Beautifully written, warm and witty, this story of a terrorised city is a must-read. Thrilling, terrifying and entertaining in equal measure. Blazes with imaginative flair and narrative energy... packed with sensuously evoked reminders of Rome's rich past...haunted and haunting It was hard to turn pages fast enough to keep up with the rapid-fire pace of The Ghosts of Rome. Joseph O'Connor lures readers into a little known, but important, facet of World War II history and keeps them hooked until the very last page. Digs ever deeper into the lives of the everyday heroes of a war-ravaged city, unearthing stories of remarkable courage and ingenuity that glitter from the pages of this tense, polyphonic narrative Breathtakingly good writing - O'Connor puts you right there, centre stage in the story and never lets you go O'Connor is on stellar form with this ensemble thriller...an expert storyteller A masterwork... so urgent, so incredibly alive... A searing and beautiful example of storytelling's infinite importance


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781787303874
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Width: 165 mm
  • ISBN-10: 178730387X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 2 Rome Escape Line
  • Weight: 426 gr


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