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The Whip Hand
Book 1 in the Rex Carver Mysteries series.
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London private investigator Rex Carver accepts what appears to be a straightforward commission to find Katerina Saxmann, a German au pair who has disappeared from Brighton. The speed with which British security officers take an interest in his enquiry reveals that the missing woman is connected to something more serious. Carver follows her through Paris, Dubrovnik, Venice and Germany while witnesses, officials and criminals offer incompatible versions of her identity and purpose.
The first Rex Carver novel combines the private-eye investigation with Cold War espionage and the unresolved political inheritance of wartime Europe. Carver’s independence is repeatedly compromised by intelligence officers who possess more information than they will share. The changing borders, tourist routes and clandestine networks of 1965 Europe make travel itself part of the mystery.
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