The Empire of Night, Robert Olen Butler
The Empire of Night, Robert Olen Butler
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The Empire of Night

Author: Robert Olen Butler

Narrator: Ray Chase

Unabridged: 12 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2014

Synopsis

It is 1917, and the United States is still wavering on the brink of war. At an elite intelligence meeting at a Hyde Park mansion, Kit's handlers pair him up with someone he would never have expected—his mother. There's a German mole somewhere in the British government, and the most likely suspect happens to be a diehard fan of the famous American theater actress Isabel Cobb. Disguised as a German-American reporter named Joseph William Hunter, Kit follows his mother and her escort Sir Albert Stockman from the relative safety of London into the lion's den of Berlin.

This third installment in Butler's critically-acclaimed series features the swash-buckling action, charismatic leading man, and artful prose that have won the hearts of historical crime fiction fans everywhere.

About Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of nineteen novels, including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska)

The background for this series is that Kit Cobb, war correspondent, has been recruited by the US Government for espionage work in the first world war. In this installment, Kit Cobb's job is to verify that a member of the British Parliament is working for Germany. The man in question, Baron Albert St......more

Goodreads review by Evelyn

Butler is a skillful writer and an ace espionage storyteller. His Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, of which I've now read two of the four books, is fun, smart, even exciting. Set during WWI (a nice change from the plethora of thrillers available that take place before, during and/or after WWII), the......more

Goodreads review by Hans

The Pulitzer Prize winner turns his hand toward espionage in this series, and so far this is the best one in it, at least for me. Chris Cobb, the news journalist who's invited to spy for the U.S., is a compelling character, often challenging himself and his own sense of right and wrong while doing s......more

Goodreads review by Drtaxsacto

This is the fourth novel by this author that I have read since the start of the year. All of these have a grizzled war correspondent (Christopher Marlowe Cobb) and his mother the famous actress Isabel Cobb. Each is set in the time period after the beginning of WWI. He has stories about the Germans i......more

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