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Robert O. Butler

    Robert Olen Butler crée des récits captivants qui explorent les complexités de la psyché humaine avec un style distinctif et évocateur. Son approche littéraire privilégie une exploration intime de la vie intérieure des personnages, révélant leurs motivations et leurs paysages moraux avec une profonde perspicacité. Butler est célébré pour sa capacité à immerger les lecteurs dans des mondes richement détaillés, offrant une lentille unique à travers laquelle appréhender des thèmes universels de connexion et de conflit. Sa narration magistrale et son engagement envers une représentation authentique des personnages ont solidifié sa réputation en tant que voix significative de la littérature américaine contemporaine.

    The Empire of the Night
    The Star of Istanbul
    • The Star of Istanbul

      • 376pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
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      Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an American war correspondent reporting on World War I, has been tasked to follow a man named Brauer, a German intellectual and possible covert SS agent, into perilous waters aboard the ship Lusitania, as the man is believed to hold information vital to the war effort. Aboard the Lusitania on its fateful voyage, Cobb becomes smitten with famed actress Selene Bourgani, who for some reason appears to be working with German Intelligence

      The Star of Istanbul
    • The Empire of the Night

      • 410pages
      • 15 heures de lecture
      4,0(2)Évaluer

      It is 1915, and 'Kit' Cobb is working undercover in a castle on the Kent coast owned by a suspected British government mole, Sir Albert Stockman. Kit is working with his mother, the beautiful and mercurial spy, Isabel Cobb, who also happens to be a world-famous stage actress. Isabel's offstage role is to keep tabs on Stockman, while Kit tries to figure out his agenda. Following his mother and her escort from the relative safety of Britain into the lion's den of Berlin, Kit must remain in character, even under the very nose of the Kaiser

      The Empire of the Night