The Crook Factory, Dan Simmons
The Crook Factory, Dan Simmons
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The Crook Factory

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 19 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/07/2011

Synopsis

At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true.…It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence—and the game turns deadly.In The Crook Factory, award-winning author Dan Simmons expands a little-known fact into a tour de force of gripping historical suspense set in the sensual Cuban landscape of the early 1940s.

About Dan Simmons

DAN SIMMONS is a recipient of numerous major international awards, including the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. He is widely considered to be one of the premier multiple-genre fiction writers in the world. His most recent novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Terror and Drood, as well as Black Hills. He lives along the Front Range in Colorado and has never grown tired of the views.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

OMG. Okay, let's face it. Dan Simmons is a consummate author. Consummate because he does a TON of fantastic research, thorough follow-through, and fantastic characters. Not only that, but he happens to have been one of my favorite authors ever since I read Hyperion back in the day. Since then, he's......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

Talk about a concept that sells itself: Ernest Hemingway battles Nazis spies in Cuba during World War II. Who wouldn’t pay money to see that fight? In this historical fiction based on Hemingway’s activities in the Caribbean during the war, Joe Lucas is an FBI agent who has been busting up Nazi intell......more

Goodreads review by Φίλιππος ²³

Ένα επικό ταξίδι στην Κούβα του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, με ξεναγό τον ειδικό πράκτορα Τζο Λούκας! Η απίστευτη ιστορία του Χέμινγουεϊ και της Φάμπρικας Απατεώνων, που γίνεται ακόμη πιο απίστευτη αν λάβει κανείς υπόψιν ότι είναι κατά 95% αληθινή!......more

Goodreads review by The Face

As boring as Hemingway’s novels itself, so that’s appropriate. Look, Dan Simmons is the greatest author alive today. His bibliography speaks for itself. With ‘The Crook Factory,’ readers receive more facts that fiction as Simmons states in the afterward that 95% of the novel is true. This is fine, es......more

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