The Key to Rebecca
Language: English
1939-1945 1939-1945 - Secret service Espionage Fiction Fiction - Espionage General General Fiction Historical History Intrigue Media Tie-In Military Mystery Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detectives Spy stories Suspense Thriller Thrillers War War & Military World War World War II
Publisher: Signet
Published: Jan 1, 1980
Description:
Set in North Africa, summer 1942, during Rommel's campaign against the British. This is the story of Alex Wolff, master spy, who treks across the Sahara and covertly enters the plot-ridden streets of wartime Cairo. And of Major Vandam, the British officer who is on Wolff's trail, sworn to destroy him. Wolff's mission is to steal British military plans and send them to Rommel, using a code whose key is buried in the pages of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca. As Rommel's troops come closer to victory, Vandam edges closer to Wolff and the crucial key. There are incredible chase scenes: a motorcycle hurtling through blacked-out Cairo; the flash of a knife, a gush of hot blood, and the fleeting shadow of an escaping assassin; a harrowing race against death and a speeding train. Follett builds tension and suspense to a screaming pitch as he follows the adversaries across the internal desert to a confrontation as startling as it is explosive.