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The Hard Swim (Sam Dyke Investigations, #3)

Keith Dixon

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Description:"I enjoy Lee Child, Robert Crais, Tess Gerritson. So I think Keith Dixon is up there with the greats." - Amazon Reviewer FEBRUARY 1942: The Struma, a broken-down steamer, explodes and sinks in the Black Sea, drowning 768 Rumanian Jews fleeing the Nazis and heading for Palestine, and safety. JUNE 1944: Thirty-one SAS soldiers are captured behind enemy lines and are forced to dig their own graves before being shot and buried in a forest in the heart of France. SEVENTY YEARS LATER: A young woman is attacked in the grounds of Edinburgh Zoo – the attacker seeking the document that might link these two wartime events. Private Investigator Sam Dyke becomes involved in unravelling a mystery that dates back to the Second World War. He rescues a woman who's on the point of being abducted and, for all he knows, murdered. He helps the woman, Chantal Bressette, escape, subsequently learning that she’s carrying a document of vital importance to a group of powerful people. This document is a coded diary written by a French Resistance fighter in the Second World War, but it also contains information implicating the British Government in a terrible crime. Now the descendant of a key player in that action has let loose a team of ex-army killers to recover the information before it can be made public. Sam Dyke is the only person who can stop them. Sam is a private investigator from a working-class environment who usually runs investigations amongst the wealthy and privileged of the Cheshire set—those whose morals and levels of discretion are offensive to him and contradict his own values, forged in a strong family environment. The mysteries he unravels become personal crusades against entitlement, wealth and the abuse of power. Like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade he has a clear view of what the world is actually like, but he nevertheless wants evil-doers set straight and will do what he can to help. Based on true events, and with action ranging from bustling Edinburgh through to a quiet village in the centre of France, The Hard Swim pits Sam Dyke against his toughest opponents yet—an experienced team of killers backed by a ruthless MP about to ascend to one of the great roles of State. Here's what some reviewers have said: 'The Hard Swim is deftly plotted and an engaging read, weaving together stories from the Second World War with those set in the present. The plotting is so well done that Dixon keeps the reader guessing. Every detail that is set-up earlier on in the novel has a pay-off later on in the story. Keith Dixon's prose is fluent and assured and he has that knack of making the writing look easy.... ' 'I liked this enormously. It has a Dick Francis like attention to detail which makes the plot totally convincing. The thing that I found fascinating was the character of Steele and the psychology of someone who knows he is a sadist but at the same time is aware of what it does to his karma and who thinks of himself as an honorable soldier until disillusioned. A really good read with a depth of characterization, a classic private eye hero and interesting historical twists to the plot.' 'It would have been typical of the genre, and much simpler for the author, to have made Sam's chief antagonist, appropriately named Connell Steele, an inscrutable psychopath. Dixon, to his credit, makes him a far more complex personality, a professional assassin who is losing the ability to hide from his own doubts behind his avowed commitment to the military virtues of patriotism and honor.'We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Hard Swim (Sam Dyke Investigations, #3). To get started finding The Hard Swim (Sam Dyke Investigations, #3), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "I enjoy Lee Child, Robert Crais, Tess Gerritson. So I think Keith Dixon is up there with the greats." - Amazon Reviewer FEBRUARY 1942: The Struma, a broken-down steamer, explodes and sinks in the Black Sea, drowning 768 Rumanian Jews fleeing the Nazis and heading for Palestine, and safety. JUNE 1944: Thirty-one SAS soldiers are captured behind enemy lines and are forced to dig their own graves before being shot and buried in a forest in the heart of France. SEVENTY YEARS LATER: A young woman is attacked in the grounds of Edinburgh Zoo – the attacker seeking the document that might link these two wartime events. Private Investigator Sam Dyke becomes involved in unravelling a mystery that dates back to the Second World War. He rescues a woman who's on the point of being abducted and, for all he knows, murdered. He helps the woman, Chantal Bressette, escape, subsequently learning that she’s carrying a document of vital importance to a group of powerful people. This document is a coded diary written by a French Resistance fighter in the Second World War, but it also contains information implicating the British Government in a terrible crime. Now the descendant of a key player in that action has let loose a team of ex-army killers to recover the information before it can be made public. Sam Dyke is the only person who can stop them. Sam is a private investigator from a working-class environment who usually runs investigations amongst the wealthy and privileged of the Cheshire set—those whose morals and levels of discretion are offensive to him and contradict his own values, forged in a strong family environment. The mysteries he unravels become personal crusades against entitlement, wealth and the abuse of power. Like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade he has a clear view of what the world is actually like, but he nevertheless wants evil-doers set straight and will do what he can to help. Based on true events, and with action ranging from bustling Edinburgh through to a quiet village in the centre of France, The Hard Swim pits Sam Dyke against his toughest opponents yet—an experienced team of killers backed by a ruthless MP about to ascend to one of the great roles of State. Here's what some reviewers have said: 'The Hard Swim is deftly plotted and an engaging read, weaving together stories from the Second World War with those set in the present. The plotting is so well done that Dixon keeps the reader guessing. Every detail that is set-up earlier on in the novel has a pay-off later on in the story. Keith Dixon's prose is fluent and assured and he has that knack of making the writing look easy.... ' 'I liked this enormously. It has a Dick Francis like attention to detail which makes the plot totally convincing. The thing that I found fascinating was the character of Steele and the psychology of someone who knows he is a sadist but at the same time is aware of what it does to his karma and who thinks of himself as an honorable soldier until disillusioned. A really good read with a depth of characterization, a classic private eye hero and interesting historical twists to the plot.' 'It would have been typical of the genre, and much simpler for the author, to have made Sam's chief antagonist, appropriately named Connell Steele, an inscrutable psychopath. Dixon, to his credit, makes him a far more complex personality, a professional assassin who is losing the ability to hide from his own doubts behind his avowed commitment to the military virtues of patriotism and honor.'We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Hard Swim (Sam Dyke Investigations, #3). To get started finding The Hard Swim (Sam Dyke Investigations, #3), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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