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Ice Soldier - Paul Watkins Ice Soldier - Paul Watkins
Pages: 364, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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The Forger - Paul Watkins The Forger - Paul Watkins
Earlier books by Paul Watkins such asArchangelandThe Story of My Disappearancehave been ... more
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 Thunder God - Paul Watkins
Pages: 336, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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The Ice Soldier - Paul Watkins The Ice Soldier - Paul Watkins
Pages: 252, Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Quiet War - Paul Watkins The Quiet War - Paul Watkins
Pages: 240, Paperback, Outskirts Press
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The Promise of Light - Paul Watkins 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 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. ... more
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 In the Blue Light of African Dreams - Paul Watkins
Pages: 288, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Faber and Faber
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