In a few months’ time, he’ll probably finish off England, and then America and Russia will be glad to come to terms with him. As the Polish army crumbled beneath the German onslaught, Czerniawski escaped to Romania and then, using forged documents, made his way to France, where Polish forces were regrouping. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There were some hiccups and a severe lack of murder scenes, but with one of the killers who is always thrilling and has a way of tying a bunch of previous events together, I was sucked in and devoured the rest of the book.

Women frequently found him irresistible, with his easy manners, “loose, sensual mouth,” and green eyes behind heavy lids. Alex Cross faces two crazed killers in this chilling, suspenseful blockbuster from James Patterson, "the man who can't miss" (Time). Despite this, I found Double Cross to be very good because of its interesting topic and extensive details. Jebsen wore the same expression of “sharp intelligence, cynicism and dark humour,” but he also seemed tense, as if there was something weighing on his mind. One cannot read DOUBLE CROSS without feeling as if there are even bigger things yet to come from Cross and his creator.No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Virgin Islands (U. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Double Cross may be his best yet, falling somewhere between top-class entertainment and pure addiction.

His real name was Roman Czerniawski, and in a very short time, through sheer energy, conviction, and a soaring sense of his own worth, he had become the most valuable British spy in France. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While tracking down Bell's former house, a cabin in the woods, Alex and Bree learn that Bell had purchased milk days before he was last seen, causing Alex to get suspicious. A Nought boy at an exclusive Cross school, Tobey has dreams of going to university and getting out of the cycle of poverty and violence. Opinion was divided on his looks: “He smiles freely showing all his teeth and in repose his face is not unpleasant, though certainly not handsome,” wrote one male contemporary.Alex, Sampson, and Bree go to a press conference in Baltimore, where Alex finds a message from DCAK stating that Alex is missing the "show". A few days later, the friends were alone at the bar of a Belgrade hotel, when Jebsen lowered his voice, looked around in a ludicrously conspiratorial manner, and confided that he had joined the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, “because it saved him from soldiering, of which he was very much afraid as he is a heavy sufferer from varicose veins. Macintyre pays them their due respects - this strange bunch of people drawn from across Europe and beyond - who played their own role in shaping the world we live in today. He panics and tells Dan he will not be involved with it again and if he gets arrested he will name Dan and McAuley.

When Popov was challenged to a sword duel over a girl, it was Jebsen, as his second, who quietly arranged a peaceful solution, to Popov’s relief, “not thinking my looks would be improved by a bright red cicatrix. The network consisted of scores of informers, agents, and subagents, but ultimately the Interallié was the creation of one spy, a man to whom conspiracy and subterfuge were second nature, who regarded espionage as a vocation. He is ambitious and hopes to keep himself out of trouble by going to University and getting a good job. The theatricality of the moment was compounded by Czerniawski’s announcement that he had already selected a code name for his new accomplice: she would be “La Chatte,” the She-Cat, because “you walk so quietly, in your soft shoes, like a cat. It was clear that this book was going to be a bit confusing because of the complexity of the story, which is okay because it is a true story and is told how it happened.Right at the outermost fringes of the war a handful of people on both sides engaged in poorly supervised and deluded fantasies about spying, which were mostly pointless but sometimes had horrible results for the sometimes brave individuals involved.

Indeed, it is impossible not to feel that a helpful prelude to the second world war might have been a time-and-resource-saving Anglo-German agreement not to bother with spying. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.Not only was every active agent which the Abwehr thought they had planted in Britain in fact a double agent working FOR Britain, but the Allies even had planted `'Double Agent Pigeons' in Occupied France, as homing pigeons were employed as couriers. The whole story would have been much stronger if it was broken up over only two, slightly longer, books. With his latest book, Double Cross , Ben Macintyre tells the astonishing true story of a bizarre group of misfit spies who played a critical role in the success of D-Day.