Dead Man Series (Req) - Michael Pearce
Category: Thriller
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Thriller
1. Trieste 2. Istanbul 3. Athens 4. Tangiers 5. Barcelona 6. Naples 7. Malta, A Dead Man In Trieste, From award-winning British author, Michael Pearce, comes the first in a new series introducing Seymour of Special Branch. Trieste in 1906 is one of Europes great seaports, the Austrian Empires main outlet to the Mediterranean and the world beyond. But various nationalist movements are threatening to pull the place apart. The heavy-handed militarist regime has trouble keeping a lid on it, the secret police are everywhere, and now the British consul has gone missing. Was this the result of an ill-advised liaison? Could he have fallen afoul of the secret police, or the even more secret revolutionaries? The Austrian police are of course investigating, but the Foreign Office would prefer this matter to be handled with sensitivity. Britain has commercial interests in the port after all, so perhaps it would be wise to send someone outsomeone very special from Special Branch who is capable of s
