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Europe In Autumn
by Dave Hutchinson
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Pub Date
28 Jan 2014
| Archive Date
3 Aug 2015
Description
Europe in Autumn is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carré and Franz Kafka.
Rudi is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he’s trapped in, a new career - partspy, part people-smuggler - begins.
Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny nations, duchies, polities and republics. Recruited by the shadowy organisation Les Coureurs des Bois, Rudi is schooled in espionage, but when a training mission to The Line, a sovereign nation consisting of a trans-Europe railway line, goes wrong, he is arrested, beaten and Coureur Central must attempt a rescue.
With so many nations to work in, and identities to assume, Rudi is kept busy travelling across Europe. But when he is sent to smuggle someone out of Berlin and finds a severed head inside a locker instead, a conspiracy begins to wind itself around him.
With kidnapping, double-crosses and a map that constantly re-draws, Rudi begins to realise that underneath his daily round of plot and counter plot, behind the conflicting territories, another entirely different reality might be pulling the strings...
Europe in Autumn is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carré and Franz Kafka.
Rudi is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help...
Description
Europe in Autumn is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carré and Franz Kafka.
Rudi is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he’s trapped in, a new career - partspy, part people-smuggler - begins.
Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny nations, duchies, polities and republics. Recruited by the shadowy organisation Les Coureurs des Bois, Rudi is schooled in espionage, but when a training mission to The Line, a sovereign nation consisting of a trans-Europe railway line, goes wrong, he is arrested, beaten and Coureur Central must attempt a rescue.
With so many nations to work in, and identities to assume, Rudi is kept busy travelling across Europe. But when he is sent to smuggle someone out of Berlin and finds a severed head inside a locker instead, a conspiracy begins to wind itself around him.
With kidnapping, double-crosses and a map that constantly re-draws, Rudi begins to realise that underneath his daily round of plot and counter plot, behind the conflicting territories, another entirely different reality might be pulling the strings...
Advance Praise
“Dave Hutchinson’s
considerable talent has, to date, been confined to short stories. With
Europe
in Autumn he shows that he’s also a skilled novelist with a great prose
style and a profound understanding of human motivations.
Europe in Autumn
is the work of a consummate storyteller and combines great characters, a
cracking central idea, and a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Excellent.”
Eric Brown
“Dave Hutchinson’s
considerable talent has, to date, been confined to short stories. With Europe
in Autumn he shows that he’s also a skilled novelist with a great prose style and a profound...
Advance Praise
“Dave Hutchinson’s
considerable talent has, to date, been confined to short stories. With
Europe
in Autumn he shows that he’s also a skilled novelist with a great prose
style and a profound understanding of human motivations.
Europe in Autumn
is the work of a consummate storyteller and combines great characters, a
cracking central idea, and a plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Excellent.”
Eric Brown
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ISBN |
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Available Editions
EDITION |
Other Format |
ISBN |
9781781081945 |
PRICE |
US$7.99 (USD)
|
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