The bookworm : a novel

Resource Information

The work The bookworm : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The bookworm : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Mitch Silver

Title variation

Book worm

Creator

• Silver, Mitch, 1946-

Author

• Silver, Mitch, 1946-

Subject

• Intelligence officers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
• London (England) -- Fiction
• Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction
• Official secrets -- Fiction
• Operation Sea Lion -- Fiction
• Conspiracies -- Fiction
• Women historians -- Russia (Federation) -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German -- Fiction
• Spy thrillers
• Historical thrillers

Genre

• Spy thrillers
• Historical thrillers
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Europe, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval just before Nazi art thieves plan to sweep through the area and whisk everything of value back to Berlin. But the ersatz man of the cloth is no thief. Instead, that night he adds an old leather Bible to the monastery's library and then escapes. London, 2018: A construction worker makes a grisly discovery--a skeletal arm bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist. Was this the site of a long-forgotten prison, uncharted on any map? One observer knows better: it's all that remains of a courier who died in a V-2 rocket attack. The woman who will put these two disparate events together--and understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to prevent--is Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelova Klimt, 'Lara the Bookworm' to her friends

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3619.I5523

LC item number

B65 2018

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult