- Hardcover
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (14 Mar 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755321855
- ISBN-13: 978-0755321858
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,256,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1964, a young Australian girl, Linda Carr, is trying to track down the wreckage of the Liberator bomber in which her father died when it crashed in North Italy in 1944 during World War Two. She employs the help of Jack Kirby, a British Mosquito fighter pilot who was on operations in the area when her father died. He is now a motorcycle racer competing in the Isle of Man TT, but he is finding it hard to adjust to life during peacetime. He too was shot down during the war and spent some time helping the Italian partisans on the ground so he knows a great deal about Nazi brutality, betrayal, corruption and the settling of scores that was the partisan's life in Italy at the time. He also fell in love with Francesca, one of the partisan leaders, and he is keen to find out what happened to her and renew their affair. However, what they uncover is more dangerous and complex than either Linda or Jack could ever have imagined.
About the Author
Rob Ryan was born in Liverpool. He has written for The Face, Arena, Conde Nast Traveller, Esquire and the Sunday Times. He is currently Writer at Large for GQ magazine. He lives in North London with his wife and three children.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
After Midnight,
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This review is from: After Midnight (Hardcover)
For those familiar with Robert Ryan's blend of authenticity, history and cliff-hanging drama this will be a rapid change into overdrive. All the solid components that come from an author who knows his facts combined with a twisting story blending past and present, in the first and third persons. Spellbinding - bring on the next please !
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb story telling,
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Perhaps this one strays much further into fiction than its predecessors but that does not detract from the enjoyment of a good story, well told. One of Ryan's greatest skills is that of detail, his accuracy is simply outstanding. In this story we have an RAF Mosquito pilot who crash lands into an Italian lake during the German occupation of 1944 who is rescued, then seconded by the local resistance fighters. In 1964 he is still in Italy running his own, one aircraft airline, when he is approached by a young woman seeking the undiscovered remains of her late father's Liberator bomber lost around the same time as his ditching. The pertinent detail of just those three aircraft and their operation is faultless. As is the revelation that the main character, Jack Kirby, was a former Isle of Man TT racer (still today the most dangerous motor sport event in the world) and again the accuracy and credibility is quite remarkable; and there's much more, a superbly engaging piece of work.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Gripping read!,
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Possibly the best of Ryan's books to date and based upon a true story. It was a rather odd experience to read an article in the paper about an Australian girl searching for her father's crashed aircraft around the Italian lakes and to read a letter sent by him, to her, the daughter he had neer met on the occasion of her first birthday form the other side of the world. The article caused me to cross reference with the novel, and indeed, the letter along with its real life origins is printed at the beginning of the book and is the basis for the novel. It is not strictly a flying novel and it does skip back an to from present day to the War. a practice which normally irritates me intensely, but, strangely no so in this case! A truly fabulous story about a part of WW2 which is not much talked about and based on a true and rather chilling letter. Read it, you will not regret it!
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