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A novel of exceptional style and momentum, sustained at a high emotional pitch, and beautifully constructed. - Alan Furst, New York Times Book Review. At once a thriller and a moral tale, this taut, heart-stopping novel explores the deadly perils of collaboration on quiet, idyllic Guernsey in the Channel Islands, the only British territory to be occupied by German troops in World War II. It is 1943. The tide of the war is beginning to turn decisively and bloodily against Germany, but on Guernsey life proceeds blithely beyond the reach of brutal combat. Nazi officers party with local girls, love affairs blossom, the amateur dramatics society continues to stage theatricals. Then the body of a young woman, her nose and mouth filled with cement, is found dead in a bunker, and Guernsey's long-running comedy of collaborative manners sours into a dark drama of war horrors shared by the islanders and enemy alike." A suspense novel that remains faithful to the conventions of the genre while elevating them.... The atmosphere is more like that of a Graham Greene 'entertainment' than a thriller, and the result is richer, scarier, and more satisfying." - Washington Post Book World; "This is a novel you hate to see end, even when the conclusion is so satisfying." - Chicago Tribune; "As sad as it is gripping.... A candid account of the baseness of human nature during wartime, woven seamlessly into a stirring murder mystery." - Rocky Mountain News.
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Oana Stoica
reviewed Lying with the enemy on February 25, 2010
Lying with the enemy
Mid 4. This is a formidable novel which raises the question of allegiance and loyalty amongst a population subject to occupation by enemy forces, and the moral complexities of fraternisation with the latter. In addition, how empathy with the culture and lives of those under their jurisdiction from any member of the occupying force could be interpreted by a distant leadership. Binding sets this novel on the idyllic island of Guernsey, under occupation by the Nazis at the height of the Second World War. The lives of his main protagonists, Major Lubitsch, commander of the occupying forces, and Ned Luscombe, head of the native police force, are woven irretrievably together by the love they share for the same woman, and a murder which will have them both question what they believe in and who they can confide in. The plot of the novel cleverly incorporates a cast of memorable characters and a heady mix including slave labour, amateur dramatics, black marketeering, and even the shadow of the Fuhrer himself as his birthday approaches. The author intelligently and deftly builds the tension to a satisfying climax and sublimely captures the mood and feel of the time and place.
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