The German Numbers Woman (Hardcover)

Sillitoe has specialized in heroes set apart from their fellow men ever since the prize-winning Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This time it is a blind man, Howard, an ex-RAF radio operator was blinded in the last war. He brightens his restricted life by listening to and decoding morse code messages from all over the world, while his beautiful wife Laura worries over and cares for him. A chance meeting brings him in touch with a shady villain called Richard and ultimately an international drugs racket which changes his mundane life for ever. He takes to the high seas and faces extreme danger in pursuit of both drug smugglers and a lady whose voice has intrigued him on the air. Sillitoes writing is as vigorous and penetrating as it was in the 50's - his blind hero and the noble tender wife are wonderfully well observed. Life aboard the luxury yacht used for smuggling is as memorable as parts of Treasure Island. Treachery and a passionate love affair form the basis of a story that starts low key but develops into a nail-biting drama. One of this fine novelist's best. (Kirkus UK)

A top-rate novel of drugs, love and treachery from an author at the height of his powers. Blind Howard, an ex-RAF veteran, possesses an acute sense of awareness, and can see almost better than the sighted. Morse code patterns his universe and keeps his mind tuned sharp to the big and sometimes bad world. Laura, his ever-doting wife, is loveliness personified. Things start to change when he meets the nefarious Richard. Morse is the common denominator of the alliance, but before long Howard's world of dots and dashes, dits and dahs takes on new darker horizons when he clicks into a drugs racket which means leaving his caring wife for a wild voyage in search of a woman whose voice he has fallen in love with; and a sea-journey with maverick sailors on a heroin heist.

General

Imprint:	Flamingo
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1999
Authors:	Alan Sillitoe
Dimensions:	240 x 157 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	406
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-225960-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller
LSN:	0-00-225960-5
Barcode:	9780002259606

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