
How the Light Shines.
Title:
How the Light Shines.
Author:
Vicary, Robin.
ISBN:
9781839785344
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Contents:
Intro -- The Worst Horror -- Characters in order of appearance -- Preface -- Chapter One: The meeting -- Chapter Two: A job opportunity is presented -- Chapter Three: A cook's flight -- Chapter Four: A touch of concern at S.I.S. -- Chapter Five: The nature of the scheming -- Chapter Six: A chef is examined -- Chapter Seven: Gloria - in excelsis deo? -- Chapter Eight: An informative cocktail party -- Chapter Nine: An Afrikaaner promises assistance -- Chapter Ten: In which a trap is set -- Chapter Eleven: A trip to the mines -- Chapter Twelve: Help arrives -- Chapter Thirteen: Alan takes some steps on high -- Chapter Fourteen: A Riot and a Question -- Chapter Fifteen: A Holiday in Oudtshoorn -- Chapter Sixteen: Another riot disturbs the romance -- Chapter Seventeen: Louis' past is revealed -- Chapter Eighteen: The deliveries begin -- Chapter Nineteen: How my light shines -- Chapter Twenty: The consignments are on the move -- Chapter Twenty-One: Amit bakes a new recipe -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Shuttleworth plans the diamond interception -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Action at S.I.S. headquarters -- Chapter Twenty-Four: An Unmasking -- Chapter Twenty-Five: 'What matters most is how well you walk through the fire' -- Chapter Twenty-Six: An English rain is falling -- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Worrying times at the High Commission -- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Dieter is tested -- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Alan plots diamonds -- Chapter Thirty: Morris and Sarah make Stollen -- Chapter Thirty-One: An arrest and a trip -- Epilogue: Food for thought -- Requiescant in pace -- Historical Notes.
Abstract:
'How the Light Shines' is a historical thriller set in the 1930s in England, France and southern Africa. It is an exciting tale of the attempted acquisition of diamonds by the German High Command and the British counter-espionage forces' attempts to foil them. _x000D__x000D_For Germany, the re-arming of the nation has been given top priority. But in a small office on Piccadilly, Captain Morris Shuttleworth and his team at the Secret Intelligence Service have noticed the unusual journeyings to southern Africa of a member of the Abwehr. Meanwhile, romance and cocktails intermingle with each forces' ploys to outwit each other.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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