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Southern Cross (Prelude to War Book 1) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di T. C. Isbell (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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Surpassing even loyalty to country, the desire for revenge can sear white-hot and be as addictive and as all-consuming as the strongest opiate.

German agents Elsa Gable and Chris Schulte grew up together in a Germany ravaged by the Great War. They became inseparable as they matured into more than friends, more than family. They had a bond no one could destroy, at least that's what Chris believed until the night of December 2, 1938.

Not the typical spy murder mystery, Southern Cross is a unique tale of double agents, espionage, revenge, and murder leading investigators from a morgue in Manhattan to the SS Southern Cross, a passenger liner sailing from New York to Cuba. Forced to use limited resources, a doctor from San Francisco and a young Paris police inspector scramble to uncover a vicious murderer before another passenger is killed, and before the ship docks in Havana and five-hundred travelers flood the pier.

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    23 settembre 2011
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My family moved around when I was young. I'd like to say we were one step ahead of the law, but that wouldn't be true. Life wasn't that exciting. I was a service brat. In the sixties we settled in San Diego. I served six years in the US Navy with most of that time spent on the USS Enterprise as a nuclear plant operator. After my discharge, I attended college and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. In the early eighties I moved to Bremerton, Washington and worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard until I retired in 2005. Like many authors, I started writing in high school. In the sixties and seventies I wrote short stories and poems influenced by those turbulent times. During the eighties, I wrote articles for The Rodder's Bulletin, a monthly newspaper for car enthusiasts. Retirement has given me time to pursue my passion for writing. Southern Cross is the first in a series of historical thrillers set in the period just before the United States officially enters World War II. Icarus Plot, the second book in the series, is a work in progress. I enjoy painting pictures with words, bringing characters to life, and watching what happens. Sometimes they surprise even me. Authors of fiction are entertainers and I hope you will be entertained by Southern Cross and my other books. I am a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and International Thriller Writers (ITW). For information on my works in progress go to my website, MysteryAlley.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005P8CE0G
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 644 KB
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 330 pagine
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Jess S. Hughes
5,0 su 5 stelle Page Turning Fun Read.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 30 gennaio 2014
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If you like stories of action, suspense, espianage, that surround the coming of World War II, this novel is for you.

The time is 1938/39 when the USA is finally emerging from the Great Depression and Germany is beating the war drums in Europe. War is inevitable and spies from Great Britain, Germany and other countries are jockeying for position to keep their countries one step ahead of their potential enemies.

The story's major character is Chris Schulte, German agent and rogue serial killer. Schulte travels to the USA by U-boat on a mission that is suppose to eventually end in Brazil. Along the way, several British agents are murdered in the States. As a result, the FBI winds up getting sucked into the chase. When they discover Schulte has boarded the ocean liner, Southern Cross, in New York which sails to Havana, Cuba, they know the killer has be found before the ship arrives in that country. The trouble is the rogue killer is also a master of disguises.

It is at this point, while aboard ship, a most unlikely team of investigators evolves. A young French police inspector, who is on his honeymoon, and a medical doctor returning to California from New York, are asked by the ship's captain to investigate the strange death of one of the ship's passengers. They discover the victim was murdered and it goes from there. I won't tell you anymore. I considered these two to be a couple of the most likeable and interesting characters in the story.

The ending is very much a surprise, but you will find out only by reading this page turning novel. I look forward to read T.C. Isbell's next thriller.
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5,0 su 5 stelle Southern Cross has the ingredients to make a great film or mini-series
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 19 marzo 2012
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I really didn't know whether a 'spy thriller' would be my type of book but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Plenty of characters and action with an historical backdrop which was interesting and informative and not at all heavy as it flowed with the story. I found I was able to visualize the richness of the varied scenes which made me feel that this story would translate well to either the large or small screen. I don't know whether or not it would be fair to compare Southern Cross to an Agatha Christie novel but I did get the feeling of a Poirot story in the atmosphere that it invoked to me, along with various twists and turns. Certainly worth a read to take you out of your day-to-day 'now' and immerse you into a past era. I look forward to the sequel.
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Stephen Crabbe
4,0 su 5 stelle Tight writing delivers a gripping historical thriller
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 21 ottobre 2013
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The blurb and cover of this book brought to mind all those old films of the late 1930s and 1940s, like The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. I expected a noir mystery and plenty of action and suspense, along with a Bogie-McCall romance. My prediction was right--except for the romance which, save a few hints, does not really come into the story. In fact, the experience of reading this novel was very like watching one of those old movies.

The tale overall is one of spies, danger and subterfuge; the baddies are nasty and the goodies well-intentioned. Full-costume disguise plays a major part, sometimes even producing uncertainty whether a person is a male or female. And all the time the reader is conscious of the World War looming on the horizon.

Good editing has ensured that this story is delivered in clean, succinct and effective prose. The period is evoked through references to historical events, public figures, and things like brand names, models of cars and types of aeroplanes. Nearly everyone seems to smoke cigarettes or cigars. Some descriptive passages are quite arresting but never long. It all works well, but sometimes feels just a little forced: car models, for instance, occasionally seem to distract the reader from the narrative focus at the point they are mentioned.

True to this novel's type, there is little attempt to take the reader into the subjective life of any particular character. The narration constantly shifts its point of view from one to the other, often for only a sentence or two at a time. There is no single lead character, several playing major roles. Where the narration goes into detail its focus is objective--on the setting, for example, or on the scientific procedures used in forensic investigation. Was it this approach, the avoidance of interiority, that gave me the sense of watching a movie?

In view of the type of novel Isbell set out to write, perhaps I should not have been surprised that, apart from one or two allusions, no romantic relationship figures in the story. Yet I do wonder whether some sort of evolving emotional relationship as a sub-plot might not have given this novel a broader and even stronger appeal.

Nevertheless, Southern Cross is told with a sure hand so that suspense mounts from one chapter to the next, right up to the surprising end. I will even consider dipping into the next book in the series, for which the ending has well prepared us. I might have given it an extra half-star if that were possible.
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Pat H
4,0 su 5 stelle Four Stars
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 marzo 2015
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A great Read
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Mike Owens
5,0 su 5 stelle A Compelling Spy Novel With a Zig & a Zag & a Zing!.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 17 marzo 2012
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I was hooked from the moment I opened the cover. Any spy story that opens with telegrams is just going to be good. I particularly liked T. C. Isbell's use of colorful adjectives, consistently causing the reader to really envision the settings, the characters and the scenes. It was like going back in time to the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of WWII.

Isbell's writing style alone is enough to keep one reading, but the story-line he creates is intense, exciting and fast-paced. The way he opens new chapters sort of "re-hooks" you back into the tale over and over again. IE: The first two paragraphs of Chapter 7 & the image of the old motor lodge, the Indian going up and down on the pole, the big rigs straining to make it up the steep grade... all draw images that compel one to read on.

The ending is very unexpected and you'll want to read every word right up to it and then more. Thank goodness his follow up novel, Icarus Plot, is right around the corner!

All in all a very good read that is dotted throughout with historically accurate events and phrases.

I loved it.
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