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Soon they join forces, culminating in a thrilling chase after a murderer, and an existential face-to-face between two adversaries forever changed by their encounter.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205853741234,"sku":"9781912242115","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781912242115_38208435-f594-4325-99fb-48e908c708d9.jpg?v=1786030702"},{"product_id":"9781908524515","title":"Tin Sky","description":"Ukraine, 1943. Having barely escaped the inferno of Stalingrad, Major Martin Bora is still serving on the Russian front as a German counterintelligence officer. As the Wehrmacht prepare for the Kursk counter-offensive, a Russian general defects aboard a t-34, the most advanced tank of the war. Soon he and another general, this one previously captured, are found dead in their cells. 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Are the plotters a group of heroes devoted to the salvation of Germany at the cost of their own lives, or a bunch of opportunists compromised from the beginning with the Nazi regime and now looking for a new virginity in the eyes of the Western Allies and Stalinist Russia?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308587135349,"sku":"9781912242283","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781912242283_b502c569-7eb1-40be-9822-b9e3eb1545c2.jpg?v=1786030708"},{"product_id":"9781904738664","title":"Lumen","description":"Equal parts wartime political intrigue, detective story, psychological thriller and religious mystery, Pastor's debut follows a German army captain and a Chicago priest as they investigate the death of a nun in Nazi-occupied Poland. In October 1939, Captain Martin Bora discovers an abbess, whose alleged power to see the future has brought her a devoted following, shot dead in her convent garden. Father Malecki has come to Cracow, at Pope's bidding, to investigate her powers. Now the Vatican orders him to stay and assist in the inquiry into her killing...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308733608309,"sku":"9781904738664","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781904738664_3597f9a2-18fc-4878-bbf8-ef7b2676e684.jpg?v=1786029764"},{"product_id":"9781904738824","title":"Liar Moon","description":"A well-crafted and spellbinding crime novel, Liar Moon is set in Italy, 1943. The country is now divided into a fascist north and a liberated south. Amidst the backdrop of relentless anti-partisan warfare, an aristocratic German investigating the death of a prominent local fascist must join forces with an Italian police chief hunting down an elusive serial killer. The second in a series of five, this gripping read will appeal to fans of Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308814250357,"sku":"9781904738824","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781904738824_0919a170-e3c9-444a-a53a-10e1437256ef.jpg?v=1786029766"},{"product_id":"9781908524805","title":"The Road to Ithaca","description":"The fifth in the Martin Bora WWII mystery series. In May 1941,Wehrmacht officer Bora is sent to Crete, recently occupied by the German army, and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by SS-Chief Himmler. All the clues lead to a platoon of trigger-happy German paratroopers but the truth may be more complex. Bora takes to the mountains of Crete to solve the case, navigating his way between the lcal bandits and foreign resistance fighters. Carrying Joyce's Ulysses in his pocket, Bora starts a perilous odyssey of his own.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308958560629,"sku":"9781908524805","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781908524805_c25fa6b7-fa4f-4071-8a73-7f93a3241a9a.jpg?v=1786029639"},{"product_id":"9781916725065","title":"The Venus of Salo","description":"October 1944, in the so-called Republic of Salo, the last fascist stronghold in Italy. After months of ferocious fighting on the Gothic Line, Colonel Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht must investigate the theft of a precious painting of Venus by Titian, stolen with uncanny ease from a local residence. 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