The Paris Deadline
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620453800 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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The original beast, created by French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson, boasted some 400 moving parts and could not only flap its wings, but appear to eat and digest grain. —Cevin BryermanNamed one of 2012's 10 Best Crime Novels by Kirkus From Kirkus Reviews: Every reader has his or her own appetite for detail in historical fiction. The writing is crisp, the plotting sharp and the setting superb. I do have my limits, and some novels manage to exceed it; Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian comes immediately to mind. For home news, to save money, the Colonel limited our incoming cables to fifty words a night. presidents: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson a
Highly sought after by an enigmatic American banker, European criminals, and the charming young American Elsie Short, the duck is rumored to hold the key to opening a new frontier in weapons technology for the German army, now beginning to threaten Europe once more. From bestselling historical novelist Max Byrd comes a new novel set against the dramatic backdrop of Paris in the Jazz Age—a fascinating suspense tale interwoven with rich historical detail.Paris, 1926. Newspaper reporter Toby Keats, a veteran of the Great War and the only American in Paris who doesn’t know Hemingway, has lived a quiet life—until one day he comes into possession of a rare eighteenth-century automate, a very strange and somewhat scandalous mechanical duck. Haunted with his nightmarish past in the War, Toby pursues the truth
Marvellously entertaining period thriller Stuart Lyons The Paris Deadline is a marvellously entertaining thriller with a great sense of time and place, an enthralling plot and an appealing hero. It's set mainly in Paris of the late 1920s, a world of cut-and-paste newsrooms, elegant soirees and German villains, who will stop at nothing to find the secret messages and riches hidden in a deceased doll-maker's mechanical duck. Eventually good prevails over evil, as our hero, Toby Keats, who suffered unimaginable traumas in the trenches of Worl. "I'll look for more by Byrd" according to Omni Ruler. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this light mystery for it's attractive protagonists and sense of humor. It captures the tempo of the Jazz Age and the gloomy atmosphere of a Paris winter. I'd agree that the detail gets a tad too thick, but for someone who knows the City of Light, it would be a fun reminder of the place. The book is nicely paced, easy to "fall into" and just plain fun to read. I must say that images of film noir crept into my mind as I read, along with a bit of Amelie!. MmeC said Engaging story, beautifully told. Didn't want it to end.. I don't read suspense novels very often. Having read and enjoyed Byrd's trio of historical novels about American presidents (Jefferson, Jackson, Grant), though, I was ready to trust that this book would be as good. I was just skeptical about my own reaction to a genre that I don't usually read. I shouldn't have been. I enjoyed it on many levels. I loved coming across passages so compelling that I stopped to reread them and reread them yet again before resuming the story. Then I read th