The Diplomat's Wife: 'One of our finest thriller writers.' Daily Mail

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TO LOVE, HONOUR, AND BETRAY...
'One of our finest thriller writers.' Daily Mail
1936: Devastated by the death of her beloved brother Hugh, Emma seeks to keep his memory alive by wholeheartedly embracing his dreams of a communist revolution. But when she marries an ambitious diplomat, she must leave her ideals behind and live within the confines of embassy life in Paris and Nazi Berlin. Then one of Hugh's old comrades reappears, asking her to report on her philandering husband, and her loyalties are torn.
1979: Emma's grandson, Phil, dreams of a gap-year tour of Cold War Europe, but is nowhere near being able to fund it. So when his beloved grandmother determines to make one last trip to the places she lived as a young diplomatic wife, and to try to solve a mystery that has haunted her since the war, he jumps at the chance to accompany her. But their journey takes them to darker, more dangerous places than either of them could ever have imagined...
' Thoroughly engaging. Prewar Europe has rarely been evoked with the skill that Ridpath displays here.' Financial Times

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4.3
3 reviews
Bartolomeu Dias
July 28, 2024
Mit The Diplomat’s Wife wendet sich Michael Ridpath einem Feld zu - Europa in den 1930er Jahren -, welches bereits von derart vielen Autoren vor ihm beackert wurde, das es jedem in diesem Genre belesenen möglich sein sollte, die Handlung, die Dialoge, und die stereotypen Charakterisierungen der Figuren dieses weiteren Spionageromans der Vorkriegsjahre weitgehend vorhersagen zu können. Der Versuch, Granny Emma - der erzählenden Großmutter - Format als Diplomaten-Ehefrau und Klasse als Spionin anzudichten mißlingt, handelt sie im ersteren Fall doch zumeist emotional und irrational, und im letzteren einfach nur gänzlich unwissend ins Blaue hinein. Dem Emma auf ihrer Reise in ihre Vergangenheit begleitende Enkel Phil hingegen werden Fähigkeiten zugesprochen, über welche in der Realität nur ein ausgebildeter Spezialagent verfügen würde, und nicht ein unbedarfter 18 jähriger Junge. Mehr als nur mittelmäßig spannendes Malen nach Zahlen liefert Michael Ridpath mit diesem Roman leider nicht ab.
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Michael Ridpath spent eight years as a bond trader in the City before giving up his job to write full-time. He lives in North London with his wife and three children. Visit his website at www.michaelridpath.com

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