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There's something for everybody here: espionage, high politics, intrigue, treachery, murder, homosexuality, lesbianism, and much more. ....The historical narrative is lifelike, gritty, painful....It's almost a rollicking good yarn. --Howard Spier, Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, October 2009
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It is March 1938. Hitler has marched into Vienna to a triumphant reception, but the 180,000 Jews living in the city fear the future. Katharine Simmons, an undercover SIS agent working at the British Passport Office, is distraught when her husband, also an undercover agent, is taken from their home and disappears without trace. Left alone in Vienna, Katharine's secret work prevents her from returning home, but the noose is tightening around the SIS operatives as a suspected double agent is betraying them. Can the love of a mystery man save Katharine from the Gestapo? Who is her secret betrayer? And what is the past that haunts her? In this extraordinary debut novel, love, honor and power compete against a backdrop of the growing tensions of 1930s Vienna.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would highly recommend this novel. It has a gripping plot and I couldn't put it down once I'd started reading it! The historical detail makes the novel feel rich and portrays the period really vividly. I think that this is a wonderful debut novel from this author.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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I love anything to do with romance and wartime fiction. I was certainly not disappointed this time. This novel is set just before the outbreak of WWII and is not a period I knew much about. I had visited Vienna as a child but grew up knowing nothing about its Nazi past. This novel brings that period so alive that you feel you are walking the streets with the heroine Katherine. You can feel the fear and tension. The images of the city of Vienna created by Schryer are so very powerful. "Goodnight Vienna" opens well but is really a page-turner from the middle of the first chapter onwards - from where the Captain holds in his emotion for the woman (Katherine) he loves but can't have. The reader is left wondering until the end whether the Captain will ever be able to declare his true feelings for the heroine. Romance aside, this book has real pace. I kept turning the pages, wanting to know what happens to the network of MI6 spies operating in the city, many of whom are betrayed by a mysterious figure. The novel highlights the dangerous undercover work by British secret agents in Nazi Vienna of 1938.
Absolutely loved it. I notice on Amazon that there is another book due out by Schryer. Can't wait to read it. If it's as good as the first it will be equally enjoyable.
Absolutely loved it. I notice on Amazon that there is another book due out by Schryer. Can't wait to read it. If it's as good as the first it will be equally enjoyable.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book gripping. It is very good at conveying the increasing tension and sense of foreboding in Vienna - particularly for the city's Jewish population - as the Nazis take over Austria and Hitler rides into Vienna. It does on occasion read a bit like a history lesson, but I suppose it's best that the reader fully understands what was actually going on at the time. Recommended.
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Published 1 month ago by E. Creech
Don't bother...
This is a really dire book. Don't waste your time with it. I read that it was the first book by the author, a message to her/him, please don't give up the day job.
Published 3 months ago by James Bennett
Goddnight Vienna
I bought this book having been impressed, but grossly misled, by the very favourable reviews although the rather garish cover did ring a faint alarm bell. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Beaufront
great story along with interesting history facts
The only complaint I have for this book it was not long enough! I love reading about the second world war it is a period which I find so interesting. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Ms P. Wilson
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Dear Mr Schryer,
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Goodnight Vienna: A Novel of World War Two
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