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Sebastian Faulks meets Robert Harris in a wonderfully evocative and thrilling first novel about a firefighter in London at the height of the Blitz. Autumn, 1940, and the Luftwaffe is firebombing London, a capital rendered virtually defenceless by a legacy of appeasement and governmental incompetence. Jack Finlay, a young man already notorious for his capacity to fight fires, and men, is hauled reluctantly back from his artillery unit in the Western Desert. Finlay's Liverpool past is murky but London needs him now no questions asked to wage an elemental battle on streets made strange by the scale of the destruction.His task is to do all he can to prevent five buildings vital to Britain s war effort from being engulfed. But resources are scarce, the mood bleak and Finlay himself suspicious about the real motive for the mission assigned to him by his enigmatic Whitehall taskmaster, Captain Grey. And then Finlay falls in love with a woman as unorthodox as he is: a wartime liaison as improbable as it is intense, which makes him vulnerable. With a cynical eye and a tender heart, this taut, tantalizing novel tracks a dangerous intelligence game, and spotlights with a rare and telling force, the indiscriminate path of war and fire through ordinary lives."
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Cleverly crafted... combines romance, intrigue and acute historical atmosphere. "The Times" "From the Trade Paperback edition.""
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Wonderfully evocative, taut and well written WWII novel about a firefighter in London at the height of the Blitz, caught up in an intelligence game with literary and commercial appeal. This is the literary territory where Sebastian Faulks and Robert Harris meet.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0701169818
- ISBN 13 9780701169817
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Slight toning to pages. The author's first novel Set during the Fall of 1940 as the Luftwaffe is fireboming London. Dust jacket protected in clear mylar wrapper; bubble wrapped, boxed, and shipped with Delivery Confirmation. Seller Inventory # 001015
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of the first novel by this author. SIGNED by the author on the title page. In fine / fine unread condition. Language: eng 0.0. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 14442
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Chatto & Windus, 2001. This is a signed first edition copy of The Fire Fighter by Francis Cottam. The book and dust jacket are in new condition as one might expect in a retail bookstore. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000072
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