Where Dead Men Meet

by Mark Mills Narrated by David Linski

Overview

A return to the period adventure thriller in Where Dead Men Meet reestablishes Mark Mills as a master storyteller for fans of William Boyd, Charles Cumming, or Robert Harris

Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton-a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy-finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity-or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding toward war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage twenty-five years ago.

From the author of the bestselling The Savage Garden, and set against a terrific backdrop of Europe on the cusp of the Second World War, this is a compelling novel, rich in adventure, espionage, secrets, and lies.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Audio

06/26/2017
Set in 1937, Mills’s novel sends Luke Hamilton, an air intelligence officer in Britain’s Paris embassy, on the run for his life. First, his beloved Sister Agnes, who took baby Luke into an English orphanage 25 years before, is brutally murdered. Then, shortly after a stranger warns him of danger, Luke is nearly assassinated. Chased by unknown forces, Luke races across Europe, surviving bullets, car crashes, duplicitous “helpers,” and even romance with a beautiful, intensely dedicated freedom fighter named Pippi Keller. The novel starts out riveting and loses some of its intensity along the way, but Australian-born reader Linski does his best to disguise this with a brisk narration that maintains its energy and compulsive pacing throughout. His Luke seems initially perplexed by his sudden propulsion into an unfamiliar and very dangerous world, but before long there’s strength and self-confidence in his voice that lets listeners glide through this story of international intrigue. A Blackstone hardcover. (May)

Publishers Weekly

03/20/2017
The first sentence of this uneven historical thriller from Mills (Amagansett) is a genuine attention-getter: “Had Sister Agnes been less devout, she would have lived to celebrate her forty-eighth birthday.” Late one night in 1937, at a Carthusian nunnery in England, Sister Agnes encounters an intruder who demands information about a baby boy abandoned at the nunnery’s steps 25 years earlier. Sister Agnes knows he’s referring to Luke Hamilton, whose many letters she keeps in a box beneath her bed. When she feigns ignorance, the man bludgeons her to death. Across the Channel, Luke, who’s assigned to the British embassy in Paris, is devastated by the news of the nun’s death. His world is further upended after he’s approached by a person calling himself Bernard Fautrier, which Luke assumes is an alias. At a subsequent meeting, Fautrier warns Luke that if something happens to him, Luke must disappear and take on a new identity. After this dramatic and intriguing setup, the tension gradually peters out. Memorable characters fail to redeem the so-so plot line. (May)

Library Journal

★ 03/01/2017
Believable characters, a richly detailed historical setting, and a story that keeps the reader's attention glued until the final page makes this a worthy addition to the many recent World War II novels.--Susan Clifford Braun, Bainbridge Island, WA

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169833171
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	05/30/2017
Edition description:	Unabridged

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