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    Orders from Berlin

    Written by Simon Tolkien

    Narrated by Damian Kell

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    An ingenious thriller in which young Detective Constable Trave uncovers a sophisticated plot at the heart of MI6 to assassinate Churchill and bring the Second World War and the whole Allied effort to an untimely end.

    It’s 1940, and Bill Trave is a Detective Constable in his early thirties working in West London. France has fallen and the capital is being bombed both day and night – it seems against all odds that Britain can survive the onslaught. Almost single-handedly Winston Churchill maintains the country’s morale, with the German enemy convinced that his removal would win them the War.

    Albert Morrison, a rich widower forced into early retirement by failing eyesight, is stabbed to death in his Chelsea flat. His only daughter, Ava, tells Trave that she would read the newspapers to him every evening, and the night before his death he had become suddenly excited when she read him an obscure obituary notice.

    At Morrison’s funeral, Ava learns from an old colleague that her father worked for MI6 before the War. The obituary notice was a coded message preparing for an assassination, although it does not specify the target. Trave realizes that there is a Nazi double agent within MI6, with a plan to assassinate Churchill and to set up another agent to take the blame. He is in a race against time to save Churchill, for if he fails, Britain’s entire war effort could be at stake…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 22, 2012
    ISBN9780007509539
    Author

    Simon Tolkien

    Simon Tolkien was a successful Criminal Justice barrister in London specializing in serious crimes before moving to California with his wife and two children to take up writing full time. He has been acclaimed as a naturally gifted storyteller with a terrific command of language and a unique perception into the darker sides of human nature. The grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien, with whom he had a very special relationship, Simon Tolkien’s writing is set firmly in this world.

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    • 3/5
      My expectations of this books were WAY too high and I didn't realise it was the third in the series or that Tolkien was such a prolific writer. A decent thriller set at the sunset of the Golden Age, when London was subject to air raids every night and there were Nazi spies under every bed. Apparently a prequel to the earlier books featuring Trave, he begins the book as a constable who gets involved with a murder, and tries to foil a dastardly Nazi plot to assassinate Churchill.
    • 3/5
      Being the grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien, I think people expect a lot from Simon Tolkien. Even though he writes a completely different genre, just like his grandfather, Tolkien is gifted at creating a novel with a vivid atmosphere and a complex plot. This is the third in the Inspector Trave series, but it’s a prequel to the first two novels. Even though this is my first Trave novel, I didn’t feel lost or feel like I had started in the middle of the series.I haven’t read a lot of novels centered around World War II and I’ve always felt oddly disconnected to the ones that I have read. I think it’s rare to find an author who can transport you to a period of time you have no experience with and make you feel like you’re living through it, but Tolkien is able to do this so easily. Through his writing, I felt like I was living in London during the 1940′s, cowering in subways to avoid the air strikes, watching buildings explode and my neighbours die, and moving through the wreckage of London. The whole novel is written so well.The story itself is very creative. I would classify this book completely as a thriller, not a murder mystery because the person who committed the murder is easily guessed from the beginning and confirmed about halfway through. Trave and his supporting cast are all well-developed and interesting characters. The relationships between the characters is also interesting to read about and I loved how Ava changed from the beginning to the end.This is a very fast paced novel. Even though the plot isn’t remarkably original, it’s an excellent thriller and I am highly recommending it.