{"product_id":"the-company-of-strangers-9780156027106","title":"The Company of Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Small Death in Lisbon\u003c\/i\u003e brings an exciting richness to the long shadow of evil in this crackling novel of spycraft and international intrigue. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lisbon, 1944: \u003cbr\u003e Andrea Aspinall, plucked out of academia by British intelligence so that her mathematical knowledge might help in the hunt for atomic secrets, disappears under a new identity in Lisbon, where such secrets are easily bought and sold.\u003cbr\u003e Karl Voss, already experienced in the illusions of intrigue when he arrives in Lisbon, is an attache at the German Legation, though he is secretly working against the Nazis to rescue Germany from annihilation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After a night of terrible violence, Andrea creates a family for herself from Voss's memory and the clandestine world they knew. In Portugal, in England, and in the chilly world of Cold War Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets aren't held by governments-and that death is a relative term. In \u003ci\u003eThe Company of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Wilson takes the chilling irony of \"secret intelligence\" to a new and more poignant human level, as he shows that the heart is both more knowing and more secretive than the mind.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilson, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eROBERT WILSON is the author of numerous novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Company of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Small Death in Lisbon\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Gold Dagger Award as Best Crime Novel of the Year from Britain's Crime Writers' Association. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece, Portugal, and West Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459953856786,"sku":"9780156027106","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f770d3ab-a90e-49df-bcc5-5e45e52f3dc2.jpg?v=1730017731","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-company-of-strangers-9780156027106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}