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The situation is the years preceding to the occurrence of the First World War. It is a time when Germany is apparently planning for war but Britain persists to suppose it is irrepressible and that no one would contest her. An enormous German spy network thrives in England, mostly for all the people to see. The leading character is Francis Norgate, an ambitious British diplomat who descents in disapproval with his commanders for protecting a woman while posted in Berlin. The outrage makes Norgate to be called in. He then runs into a German nobleman, Selingman, who says to be a cutlery sales person. However, Selingman is not what he seems to be. Discouraged by the British government, Norgate accepts the offer made by Selingman. Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English author, in his days a noteworthy and successful novelist of genre fiction such as thrillers. Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born on October 22, 1866 in Leicester, to his parents Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather entrepreneur. He was employed in his father’s leather business for around twenty years. He attended the Wyggeston Grammar School. His literary prestige made him buy a villa in France and a yacht, next to a residence in Guernsey, although all of his properties were lost during the World War II. Fortunately, he got back the house, le Vanquiédor in St. Peter Port, and he died there on February 3, 1946. Edward published over a hundred books between 1887 and 1943 including some: Expiation; A Monk of Cruta; The Peer and the Woman; A Daughter of the Marionis; False Evidence; A Modern Prometheus; The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown; The Wooing of Fortune; The Postmaster of Market Deighton; The Amazing Judgment; Mysterious Mr. Sabin; A Daughter of Astrea; As a Man Lives; Mr. Marx’s Secret; The Man and His Kingdom; The World’s Great Snare.
Product ID: 9781776723270
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