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Автор: Conroy James
Название: Bittern Island
ISBN: 9781949472271
Издательство: Beacon Publishing Group
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ISBN-10: 1949472272
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 476
Вес: 0.60 кг.
Дата издания: 12.02.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 21.59 x 14.00 x 2.69 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
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Karl Hoffmanns past controls his future. A past he has not lived. Karl resides on remote Bittern Island off New Englands coast. He owns All Island Rental supplying tools to locals. On the eve of a blizzard, a stranger rents a saw. That night an abandoned processing plant burns down. Probing the fire the local constable discovers a murdered body. Karls rental agreement provides the victims identity. Karl is not comfortable with attention. He has reasons. Prior to his mothers death, Karl learned he is not the son of Kurt and Galina Hoffmann, German refugees; but the offspring of Kurt Viljandi, Soviet Intelligence defector, and Galina, a ballerina offered asylum in America. Shuffled from menial job to job by their handlers, Kurt and Galina opted for a simple life on Bittern Island where they can live in obscurity. Obscure until Karl wants a life beyond the waters surrounding him. The murder gives Islanders impetus to examine things rather left unacknowledged. Local businessman Don Ostros runs a smuggling ring on the Island. The Don has spent years ingratiating himself with his neighbors. Honest citizens turn a blind eye to his crimes and seek to remain uninvolved in attempts to link him to the killing. A State Police investigator has other plans. Karl becomes a target when he is suspected of concealing evidence. To whom does Karl owe loyalty? Bittern Island captures the intrigue below the surface in the most commonplace existence in juxtaposition to the isolation and self-preserving motivation of life lived in remoteness. Here, the bonds and contradictions of human relationships intertwine physically and psychologically with the forces of nature in all its mutability.

Bittern Island, Conroy James