A game of lies
By: Rebecca Cantrell
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Hannah Vogel novel
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780765327338
Subjects: Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany); Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei; Fiction; Women journalists; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel; Women spies
Description: Set in 1936, Cantrell's well-paced third mystery featuring German crime reporter Hannah Vogel (after 2010's disappointing A Night of Long Knives) returns to the high level of her debut, 2009's A Trace of Smoke. Sought by the Gestapo for kidnapping the son of a high-ranking Nazi official, Vogel has assumed the alias of Adelheid Zinsli, a Swiss reporter, to cover the Olympic Games while spying for the British. Vogel arranges to meet with her old mentor, Peter Weill, at the Berlin Olympic Stadium, but right after Weill tells her that he needs to get some information out of the country, he keels over. While the death appears to be the result of a heart attack, Vogel believes that poison was responsible. Her search for the truth, aided by an SS officer of uncertain trustworthiness, leads her to a deadly secret. While not in Philip Kerr's league, Cantrell does a fine job evoking the period.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."