num_pages: 277
description: One day in March 1945, in recently liberated Paris, a nervous George Orwell burst into Ernest Hemingway’s hotel room and asked to borrow a pistol. He was afraid, he said, that someone was trying to kill him.But who would want to kill Orwell?In this suspenseful fictional answer, Thurston Clarke blends the facts of Orwell’s life with a thrilling tale of intrigue that begins forty years after Orwell borrowed Hemingway’s revolver, when Orwell biographer Gina Baldwin narrowly escapes a gunman’s bullet on the remote island of Jura. As Gina searches for a lost notebook of Orwell’s she uncovers a treacherous betrayal in the Spanish Civil War that lies at the black heart of a mystery that sounds suspiciously like Big Brother’s 1984…
language: English
title: Thirteen O’Clock
titlecomplete: Thirteen O’Clock
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Doubleday