The heart-pounding prequel to the acclaimed espionage thriller The Partisan finds the formidable Greta at the beginning of her journey into deadly danger and political intrigue, as the freedom fighter is tasked with finding a missing girl across the wasteland of postwar Europe.
It's 1951 and the servants of Stalin are closing in on the occupied nations of eastern Europe. As the Red Army tightens the net, Greta - best and bravest of freedom fighters - is told to escape to the West and undertake a dangerous mission.
Greta's task is to find a missing girl: the precious daughter of a partisan general who was sent into exile in the final days of the war.
But the so-called Free World is no place for vulnerable young refugees. Europe is in ruins, the old Empires are dying, and a spectacular cast of spivs, gangsters and rival intelligence agencies are fighting over the scraps.
Crossing the Iron Curtain will require nerves of steel as Greta faces down the French mob, ex-Nazis, Soviet spies, all the glamour and temptation of Paris and ultimately, her own demons.
The Exile is a white-knuckle ride into the black heart of postwar Europe - a terrifying world in which allies and enemies are impossible to tell apart.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781529176186
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 267 g
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 23 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Worrall wonderfully conjures the maelstrom of postwar France... a dramatic and thoroughly immersive account of loyalty, ideology and betrayal - Guardian
In remarkably granular detail, Worrall conjures up a Fifties Paris where historical and fictional characters coexist - Sunday Times
A terrific new voice in spy fiction…A complex, action packed portrait of a continent in ferment - Mail on Sunday
Praise for Patrick Worrall - :
The advent of a real talent...One to watch. - Sunday Times
Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre. - Lee Child
A superb and immensely enjoyable read from an excitingly fresh and original new voice. - James Holland
