Intelligence (Hardback)
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From the beloved comedian and writer: an unputdownable novel about love, secrets, wartime espionage - and moral philosophy
'Wonderfully feisty and beguiling' William Boyd, bestselling author of GABRIEL'S MOON
Was he about to offer her a job in the secret service? She held her breath. Frogwoman, codebreaker, assassin, saboteur - whatever it was, she'd do it!
Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate theories of right and wrong.
But as the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real. While her friends are called up to do intelligence work, Ida, the irrepressible Texan outsider, seeks academic distraction. Then she stumbles across secret Nazi information that could radically change the direction of the war. Can she and Medora capture the attention of the spymasters and mandarins in London in time to save thousands of lives?
Seductive, witty and page-turning, Intelligence is the unputdownable new novel from one of the UK's best-loved writers and comedians.
Intelligence (Ebook)
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From the beloved comedian and writer: an unputdownable novel about love, secrets, wartime espionage - and moral philosophy
'Wonderfully feisty and beguiling' William Boyd, bestselling author of GABRIEL'S MOON
Was he about to offer her a job in the secret service? She held her breath. Frogwoman, codebreaker, assassin, saboteur - whatever it was, she'd do it!
Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate theories of right and wrong.
But as the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real. While her friends are called up to do intelligence work, Ida, the irrepressible Texan outsider, seeks academic distraction. Then she stumbles across secret Nazi information that could radically change the direction of the war. Can she and Medora capture the attention of the spymasters and mandarins in London in time to save thousands of lives?
Seductive, witty and page-turning, Intelligence is the unputdownable new novel from one of the UK's best-loved writers and comedians.
Robert Newman
Robert Newman is a writer, comedian and activist. He was the co-creator of The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and the creator of The History of the World Backwards, Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution and A Total Eclipse of Descartes. His previous books include The Fountain at the Centre of the World, The Trade Secret and Neuropolis. He lives in London.