The Serpent Sleeping

By: Edward Weismiller

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Paperback | 30 June 1998 | Edition Number 1

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368 Pages

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A fictional tale of espionage and courage, disloyalty and betrayal set in Cherbourg, August 1944. The German army has retreated before the advancing Allied troops, leaving behind memories of collaboration and betrayal. Civilians, forced by the Germans to evacuate the city, begin trickling back, and among them Therese Bouliard. Suddenly, terrifyingly, she is arrested by the American Army and accused of being a German agent. br br Her investigation is to be conducted by Johnny Phillips, a young and idealistic soldier untrained in his work and unprepared for a world in which deception and honour can be confused. Behind him is Captain Bruce Weiller, a man with a fierce sense of duty, harassed, overworked, and ambitious, determined to do an important job well and quite capable of using trickery in the process. To Johnny, Therese is an innocent girl struggling to keep her dignity and pride; while to the captain, she is a spy, guilty until proven innocent. To the reader - but that is the story. The closer Johnny comes to the truth about Therese, the less he understands, until, frightened by the threat of facing a world where truth has many colours, he commits the ultimate betrayal.

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Lifted from the channeled spy category by its superimposition of ethics and humanity, this pits young, newly arrived American counterespionage Johnny Phillips against a Captain bucking for promotion in proving young Therese Bouliard to be a German hireling. In his first interrogation Phillips is persuaded of Therese's innocence and her desire to protect her dead - and patriotically derelict - father; Captain Weiller demands further investigation and rigs the evidence to achieve his necessary aims. Phillips, cued to duplicity, lies and protestations of non-collaboration, is slowly destroyed by Therese's amplifications of her original story. He continues to hold to the hope that she is the girl in whom he believes; but - with her final - and despairing admission-is hardened into the operative that Weiller had hoped to get. Cherbourg in 1944 and the demands of military security are a constant that holds this on its course when argument, philosophy, suspicion and concepts divert it. (Kirkus Reviews)

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