At the Court Of Charlemagne
by Robert Adam
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Pub Date Jan 02 2019 | Archive Date Dec 20 2019
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Description
Oskar Lenkeit is a fish out of water at the EEC in spring 1969. He's about to find out how far.
Echoes from the past are threatening to disturb the three-year old truce between France and Germany over the direction of the EEC. At the request of some unlikely sponsors, Lenkeit takes on an Internal Affairs investigation intended to restore the peace, but ends up with a foot on either side of a widening rift.
With corruption at the pinnacle of European society, can the project survive, will France and Germany finally set aside old differences, or will their countries' ghosts bring it down?
Written for fans of Philip Kerr, Len Deighton, Robert Harris and John Le Carré, who are looking for a European Union origins story of the same genre and set in a similar era.
Advance Praise
"""The historical facts, and how the characters’ development unfolds, is breathtaking on many levels. The author has managed to create a compelling thriller that weaves fact, fiction, and adds subtext in a relevant and skillful way.""
""This was a real page turner and caught the imagination right from the start. I really wanted to know what happened to the main protagonist and for me that's a sign of a good book."""
Featured Reviews
Nancy W, Reviewer
Oskar Lenkeit works for the EEC and the year is 1969. He is assigned the task of finding a set of papers from the end of WWII. Lots going on with Oskar and the story. Lots of corruption and hard to tell who is on what side.. Is he on a wild goose chase? He begins to think so. The story ends not as I thought it would. Good read about the EEC and the governments involved with it.
