The Hour of the Cat - Softcover

Quinn, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158567799X ISBN 13: 9781585677993

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2006

Synopsis

It's just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939, a spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured onto the case; and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has put an innocent man on Death Row, will soon find this is a murder with tentacles that stretch far beyond the crime scene...to Nazi Germany, in fact; following it to the end leads him into a murder conspiracy of a scope that defies imagination. The same clouds are rolling over Berlin: where plans for a military coup are forming among a cadre of Wehrmacht officers. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Military Intelligence, is gripped by a deadly paralysis: he is neither with the plotters nor against them. Joining them in treason would violate every value he holds as an officer. Betraying the plotters to the Gestapo Chief Reinhard Heydrich might just forsake the country's last hope to avert utter destruction and centuries of shame. Heydrich is suspicious. With no limits to Hitler's manic pursuit of territorial expansion, with crimes against the people candy-coated as racial purification, the "hour of the cat" looms when every German conscience must make a choice. When he receives an order to assist in a sinister covert operation on foreign shores, Canaris's hour has come. Hour of the Cat is a stunning achievement: tautly suspenseful, hauntingly memorable, and brilliantly authentic.

About this title

Review:

'Peter Quinn has just about reinvented the historical-detective novel ... intelligent, ironic, well-written suspense that makes us think' - James Patterson, author of "Along Came a Spider". '"Hour of The Cat" is the hour of Peter Quinn's genius ... This is a thriller on the highest level' Frank McCourt, author of "Angela's Ashes".

About the Author:

Peter Quinn is the author of the novel Banished Children of Eve (winner of an American Book Award) and previously served as speechwriter for New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. A third-generation New Yorker whose granparents were born in Ireland, he is currently Editorial Director for Time Warner and lives in Hastings, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 158567799X
• ISBN 13: 9781585677993
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400