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Ice Soldier - Paul Watkins
Pages: 364, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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The Forger - Paul Watkins
Earlier books by Paul Watkins such asArchangelandThe Story of My Disappearancehave been
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distinguished by a dogged refusal to accept the strictures of the genre. His agenda clearly involves subverting the conventions of the thriller--the final impression being of a literary novelist who can deliver the kind of increased pulse count found in such novels as Graham Greene'sThe Ministry of Fear. His new book,The Forger, arguably Watkins' most impressive so far, has a brilliantly organised sense of period (Paris 1939). David Halifax is a young American art student who finds himself in Europe as it totters on the brink of the Second World War. His personal life and career appear to be in stasis when he finds himself arrested for forgery, after a crooked art dealer tries to sell some of Halifax's paintings as Old Masters. However, his legal troubles soon appear unimportant when the Resistance press-gangs him into forging a series of great paintings in a scheme to keep them out of the clutches of the Nazis.It is hard to know where to begin in praising the achievement of this taut and atmospheric piece, which combines truly original plot motifs with effortless and authoritative scene-setting. Halifax is a sympathetic and conflicted protagonist, while the unprepossessing art dealer Fleury has the vividness and colour of all Watkins' subsidiary characters. The first-person narrative manages to freight in several acute observations on the human condition, all the time maintaining the principal effect of accelerating tension. --Barry Forshaw
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Thunder God - Paul Watkins
Pages: 336, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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The Ice Soldier - Paul Watkins
Pages: 252, Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Quiet War - Paul Watkins
Pages: 240, Paperback, Outskirts Press
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The Promise of Light - Paul Watkins
Pages: 160, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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Stand Before Your God - Paul Watkins
Pages: 208, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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Night Over Day Over Night - Paul Watkins
Pages: 280, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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The Story of My Disappearance - Paul Watkins
Paul Watkins's sixth novel is about an East German soldier and spy named Paul Wedekind.
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He becomes an American fisherman called Paul Watkins, has some exciting and deadly adventures at sea when a man he betrayed and thought he killed in Afghanistan surfaces in Rhode Island, and winds up in Mexico, writing this book "with a pencil on cheap gray-white notepads", the only paper he can find.The Story of My Disappearanceends with this note: "The author would like to thank Professor Hector Morales of the Coba Archaeological Facility, Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico, for his help in forwarding this manuscript to the publishers." Does this mean that the story is true--that the "Paul Watkins" in the novel is really the author--and that it came in over the transom and not through his agent? Don't let these questions spoil the pleasure of Watkins's precise prose as he sets out to cross Hemingway with Kafka, tossing in large chunks of Joseph Conrad in the bargain. --Dick Adler
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In the Blue Light of African Dreams - Paul Watkins
Pages: 288, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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