The Crook Factory
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455810460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 241 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Simmons is a big favorite as are stories by and about Papa Mack&Cheryl Simmons is a big favorite as are stories by and about Papa. This story is about the time that Hemingway offered his services to hunt down Nazi subs in the Caribbean. Based on truth with the addition of an FBI agent sent to keep an eye on things SS a punishment for some slight against JEH. Consistently well do. "Hemingway & WWII's Spy Archipelago" according to Robert J. Clancy. Papa Hemingway, Cuba, WWII, Nazi agents, submarine hunting, marlin fishing, shooting Thompsons, BAR's, shotguns, .Hemingway & WWII's Spy Archipelago Papa Hemingway, Cuba, WWII, Nazi agents, submarine hunting, marlin fishing, shooting Thompsons, BAR's, shotguns, .357 Magnums, .38's, .22's, ex-patriate spies, OSS, FBI, Adwehr, SS, MI5, MI6, Ian Fleming, Wild Bill Donovan, J. Edgar ("the tiniest feet of any man I've ever known), Cuban prostitutes with hearts. 57 Magnums, .Hemingway & WWII's Spy Archipelago Papa Hemingway, Cuba, WWII, Nazi agents, submarine hunting, marlin fishing, shooting Thompsons, BAR's, shotguns, .357 Magnums, .38's, .22's, ex-patriate spies, OSS, FBI, Adwehr, SS, MI5, MI6, Ian Fleming, Wild Bill Donovan, J. Edgar ("the tiniest feet of any man I've ever known), Cuban prostitutes with hearts. 8's, .22's, ex-patriate spies, OSS, FBI, Adwehr, SS, MI5, MI6, Ian Fleming, Wild Bill Donovan, J. Edgar ("the tiniest feet of any man I've ever known), Cuban prostitutes with hearts. "Hemingway, FBI, Cuba, espionage and more" according to John Warrant. This is a well-written thriller based on some mighty shady people, one of whom was J. Edgar Hoover. Then, if you throw in Cuba, Hemingway, some Nazis, spies, drinking, womanizing, espionage, and a fine writer, you have this book. Although it's technically fiction, it reads like the true history it is based on
But the web of conspiracy Simmons spins, the zesty characters it entangles and its intricate cross-weave of fact and fiction distinguish this celebration of the Hemingway centenary. Someone is channeling information through the island's intelligence underground, all of it implicating a host of historical celebrities. As vividly depicted by Simmons, pre-Communist Cuba is an exotic locale whose volatile wartime intrigues are comparable to those of the cinematic Casablanca. The more deeply Hemingway's team probes, the more Lucas is persuaded that the Crook Factory has been deliberately set up as an expendable military subterfuge. No one will mistake the novel's immersions in the numbing, repetitive detail of secret service operations for Papa's own concise prose. Joe Lucas, a dedicated if unima
But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligenceand the game turns deadly.In The Crook Factory, award-winning author Dan Simmons expands a little-known fact into a tour de force of gripping historical suspense set in the sensual Cuban landscape of the early 1940s.. At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of am