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Paul Pickering

Lucy

A naked, burning man runs up a hill of rubble on the last day of the Second World War in Berlin. In one hand are fragments of a white flower and he whispers “Ich liebe Sie alle,” I love you all. He is saved by a young Irish-American colonel, Kells. Certain the man with no identity or memory will die, Kells gives him the name 'Hyman Kaplan' who Kells, as part of Operation Lucy, has been sent to kill because, absurdly, Hyman is part of Lucy, and Lucy kills her own to remain secure.

Pickering's new novel is a sensationally readable tale of intrigue, sex, horrific killings, and sacrifice.
392 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
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  • phát Nguyễn hữuhas quoted3 months ago
    I am free. The words rolled through him like thunder as naked and dark blue with dust he fled from his own all-consuming yellow fire.

    He emerged from a ruined building a human flame and with one long scream ran up a mountain of rubble and destruction, the small arms fire chattering to a stop under clouds blackened with smoke and by the light of a strange and pale red sun.

    There was an immense battle and he was not clear, his mind and memory gone, what he was doing there, or who the sides were. Or who he was. The hot dust stung his lungs.

    The man tried to beat out the fire on his legs and chest and on the back of his left hand and stared up at the sky in a halo of his own flames and pain. His nakedness brought an intimacy to his inevitable death on a day when tens of thousands died.
  • tangtanphat2010has quoted3 months ago
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