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An unseaworthy yacht sets sail from France on a family holiday. A baby is lost in a lifeboat after a storm in the English Channel. Friendships collapse, alliances change, enemies are made, and lives are changed forever.Just prior to World War Two, Penelope Parker attends Cambridge University. She inadvertently uncovers a German spy ring trying to steal nuclear secrets. This sets her down a road of disguise, of espionage, of danger, of love.Franz Kohl has risen within the Nazi party on a quest to forget his past and gain power. But Electra becomes his nemesis. Can he capture her and destroy the resistance cells in Dieppe, France, even when old friends come back into the picture?

What must it be like to be tricked into spying for a foreign country and then tricked again to become a double agent? Henry Salter had a bad start in life in London, England. Orphaned at an early age, he had to leave school at fourteen despite having a photographic memory and being considered a genius by his teachers. Later, the love of his life, Rachel, is estranged due to her wealthy father's dark secret. He was trained in sabotage and deadly arts by a sadistic SS secret intelligence officer, Wolfgang Graf von Furstenberg, to cripple British radar prior to Germany's planned invasion of Britain in 1940 - Operation Sea Lion. Later trained by Britain's spymaster, Simpson-jones, Henry holds the key to the success or failure of the invasion. If he chooses the wrong side, death awaits him. Rachel is inadvertently present along with Furstenberg and Simpson-Jones at a critical point when all is revealed to him. With naivety gone due to his harrowing experiences in Germany, France, and England, he struggles with his innate sense of morality and loyalty to Britain versus the desire for personal revenge and survival.

Among the many writers who lent their talents to the creation of hard-boiled detective fiction, few have approached it from a more original perspective than Chester Himes. A former criminal himself, Himes brought to the writing of detective fiction the perspective of the black man. Himes made his debut with the brilliant For Love of Imabelle, for which he was awarded the coveted Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere."

A Companion to Catullus addresses the central themes in Catullan studies and reflects the most recent trends in the field, providing readers with the fundamental knowledge necessary to appreciate and understand the poet's work.