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Crooked Adam
- Author
- D.E. Stevenson
- Narrator
- Richard Attlee
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 1 June 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame.
But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war – for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans.
Adam and the doctor move to an engineering works in Scotland to build a working model of the weapon. Here, in the wild beauty of the Highlands, Adam is drawn into a desperate game of cat and mouse with the enemy – and he meets Brenda, who is young and beautiful and in terrible danger…
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Details
- Author
- D.E. Stevenson
- Narrator
- Richard Attlee
- Duration
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 June 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399186186
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Romance, Thriller / suspense fiction, Second World War fiction
Synopsis
1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war – for Dr. Cooke has developed a deadly secret weapon and enemy agents are after the plans. Adam and the doctor move to an engineering works in Scotland to build a working model of the weapon. Here, in the wild beauty of the Highlands, Adam is drawn into a desperate game of cat and mouse with the enemy – and he meets Brenda, who is young and beautiful and in terrible danger…
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