Download e-book for kindle: The Bookworm: A Novel by Mitch Silver

A beautiful and remarkable new mystery, Mitch Silver’s most up-to-date novel takes readers from a mystery operation in the course of global warfare II—with appearances via Noel Coward and Winston Churchill—to contemporary London and Moscow, the place Lara Klimt, “the Bookworm,” needs to hire all her talents to avoid a global conspiracy.

Why did Hitler selected to not invade England while he had the chance?

Europe, 1940: It’s overdue summer time and Belgium has been overrun through the German military. Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his means into the monastery at Villers-devant-Orval previous to Nazi artwork thieves plan to brush during the zone and whisk every thing of price again to Berlin. however the ersatz guy of the material isn't any thief. as an alternative, that evening he adds an outdated leather-based Bible to the monastery’s library after which escapes.

London, 2017: A building employee working a backhoe makes a grisly discovery—a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff hooked up to the wrist. was once this the positioning, as a BBC newsreader speculates, of “a long-forgotten criminal, uncharted on any map?” One viewer is aware higher: it’s all that continues to be of a courier who died in a V-2 rocket assault. the lady who will placed those disparate occasions together—and comprehend the looming tragedy she needs to hurry to prevent—is Russian historian and previous Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt, “Lara the Bookworm,” to her associates. She’s additionally experiencing a few woeful marital troubles.

In the process this riveting mystery, Lara will study the importance of six musty Dictaphone cylinders recorded after D-Day by means of Noel Coward—actor, playwright and, secretly, a British agent reporting on to Winston Churchill. she's going to comprehend accurately why that leather-based Bible, scooped up by way of the Nazis and deposited at the table of Adolf Hitler days ahead of he deliberate to assault Britain, performed the sort of pivotal function in turning his weapons to the East. and she or he will observe the recent mystery pact negotiated by way of the nefarious Russian president and his newly elected American counterpart—maverick and dealmaker—and the evil it portends.

Oh, and she’ll reconcile along with her husband.