The Crook Factory
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1480506788 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 443 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Simmons is a big favorite as are stories by and about Papa" according to Mack&Cheryl. Simmons is a big favorite as are stories by and about Papa. This story is about the time that Hemingway offered his services to hunt down Nazi subs in the Caribbean. Based on truth with the addition of an FBI agent sent to keep an eye on things SS a punishment for some slight against JEH. Consis. "Hemingway & WWII's Spy Archipelago" according to Robert J. Clancy. Papa Hemingway, Cuba, WWII, Nazi agents, submarine hunting, marlin fishing, shooting Thompsons, BAR's, shotguns, .Hemingway & WWII's Spy Archipelago Papa Hemingway, Cuba, WWII, Nazi agents, submarine hunting, marlin fishing, shooting Thompsons, BAR's, shotguns, .357 Magnums, .38's, .22's, ex-patriate spies, OSS, FBI, Adwehr, SS, MI5, MI6, Ian Fleming, Wild Bill Donovan, J. Edgar ("the tiniest feet of any man I've ever known), Cuban prostitut. 57 Magnums, .Hemingway & WWII's Spy Archipelago Papa Hemingway, Cuba, WWII, Nazi agents, submarine hunting, marlin fishing, shooting Thompsons, BAR's, shotguns, .357 Magnums, .38's, .22's, ex-patriate spies, OSS, FBI, Adwehr, SS, MI5, MI6, Ian Fleming, Wild Bill Donovan, J. Edgar ("the tiniest feet of any man I've ever known), Cuban prostitut. 8's, .22's, ex-patriate spies, OSS, FBI, Adwehr, SS, MI5, MI6, Ian Fleming, Wild Bill Donovan, J. Edgar ("the tiniest feet of any man I've ever known), Cuban prostitut. John Warrant said Hemingway, FBI, Cuba, espionage and more. This is a well-written thriller based on some mighty shady people, one of whom was J. Edgar Hoover. Then, if you throw in Cuba, Hemingway, some Nazis, spies, drinking, womanizing, espionage, and a fine writer, you have this book. Although it's technically fiction, it reads like the true history
Joe Lucas, a dedicated if unimaginative young FBI agent, thinks he has been assigned to humor the well-connected writer but soon discovers that Hemingway and his crew of colorful sycophants have stumbled on a Nazi spy nest abuzz with activity. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. No one will mistake the novel's immersions in the numbing, repetitive detail of secret service operations for Papa's own concise prose. The macho figure he cuts here is the stuff of countless Life magazine photos, and his development as Joe's friend and mentor is handled with intelligence and dignity. Someone is channeling information through the island's intelligence underground, all of it implicating a host of historical
But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence—and the game turns deadly.In The Crook Factory, award-winning author Dan Simmons expands a little-known fact into a tour de force of gripping historical suspense set in the sensual Cuban landscape of the early 1940s.. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. This much is true.…It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J