The Doll's House (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560545593 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 455 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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National ad/promo.. On assignment with British Intelligence to investigate a hotel in Southern England believed to be the secret headquarters of a group of international terrorists, career diplomat Rosa Bennett finds herself drawn to the hotel's proprietor. 25,000 first printing
No One Wants To Live In A Doll's House. Betty Burks Henrik Ibsen wrote a play, A DOLL HOUSE in which the central character, Nora, rejects a marriage and life in "a doll's house." He wrote masterfully about women's rights; HEDDA GABLER was another of his strong-willed female characters. Did she or did she not shoot her husband? Or did he kill himself? It's all in the game.Evelyn Anthony of England calls her novel about international te. "An enjoyable spy thriller" according to HORAK. Harry Oakham worked as a middle-grade Civil Servant for twenty-eight years. His dismissal from the Service at fifty-two was due to the end of the Cold War. Strongly embittered, he ventures upon setting up training facilities for Lybian terrorists and the IRA at a red-brick Tudor mansion called Doll's House Manor Hotel. Harry recruits several people for the job: Hermann Rilke, former
From Publishers Weekly In her latest romantic thriller, set in present-day England, the prolific Anthony ( The Assassin ; The Relic ) brings together the seemingly opposed objectives and personalities of Rosa Bennett and Harry Oakham. . Rosa drops her guard and Oakham, with long-dormant emotions newly awakened, must question his true motives and desires. When his group'bungles its first job, they must race against time to see whose secrets will be discovered first. Oakham, a career intelligence officer who is bitter over being forced into retirement, has gathered the world's most cold-blooded ex-spies (all lacking a place in the post-Communist world order) to apply their talents for international terrorism and murder-for-hire. Rosa, recently divorced, is sent there on her first spying mission to discover what Oakham is up to. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. While fast-paced and entertaining, the novel is flawed by characters who switch all