Lea Carpenter: Ilium, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Ilium
- A Novel
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- Verlag:
- Random House, 02/2025
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593470251
- Artikelnummer:
- 12010126
- Umfang:
- 242 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 263 g
- Maße:
- 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 11.2.2025
- Serie:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special op "Exquisite... Ilium is like James Bond as told by the New Yorker ."--Good Morning America**** The young English narrator of Lea Carpenter's dazzling new novel has grown up unhappily in London, dreaming of escape, pretending to be someone else and obsessed with a locked private garden. On the eve of her twenty-first birthday, at a party near that garden, she meets its charismatic and mysterious new owner, Marcus, thirty-three years older, who sweeps her off her feet. Before long they are married at his finca in Mallorca, and at last she has escaped into a new role -- but at what price? On their honeymoon in Croatia, Marcus reveals there is something she can do for him---a plan is in place and she can help with "a favor." This turns out to be posing as an art advisor to a family on Cap Ferret, where Marcus asks her to simply "listen." A helicopter deposits her at a remote, highly guarded and lavishly appointed compound on a spit of land in the Atlantic. It's presided over by an enigmatic, charming patriarch Edouard, along with his wife Dasha, children Nikki and Felix, and populated by a revolving cast of other guests---some suspicious, some intriguing, perhaps none, like her, what they seem. Brilliantly compelling, this is a spellbinding and unexpectedly poignant story of a long- planned, high-stakes CIA-Mossad operation that only needed the right asset to complete.
