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The Dead Duck Bounced (Paperback)
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The Dead Duck Bounced (Paperback)
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Loot Price R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
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What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the
British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation
by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with
white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the
Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5
file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic
alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks
are news stories destined for the News Editor's spike and Flynt
suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow
with the same coded message --Many Happy Returns Harold
Prettyman--used by Prettyman and his accomplice in 1940. But there
are no Allied food convoys in the North Atlantic and, believing the
letter a hoax Flynt's newspaper moves him to another assignment-the
disappearance of a Foreign Office diplomat suspected of fleeing to
Moscow like his predecessors Burgess and Maclean. But Scotland Yard
seems more interested in the Coal Miner, a missing Van Gogh
masterpiece looted by the Red Army Trophy Brigade as war
reparations, but now the focus of an exhibition at Tate Britain
after being returned to its owner by the Commission for the
Recovery of Looted Art in Europe. The painting discovered hanging
on the kitchen wall of the apartment of a dead Trophy Brigade
officer had been taken in lieu of pension. Private homes, art
galleries and museums across the Russian Federation continue to
hold large quantities of booty from the Second World War, worthless
since President Putin banned the repatriation of cultural
artifacts, but priceless in the West. So, is the Coal Miner
exhibited at the Tate the missing Van Gogh or a forgery made by a
copyist at the Hermitage in St Petersburg? A zig-zag trail leads
Flynt's search for Harold Prettyman into the world of Diplomatic
Bags, fakes, and money laundering.
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