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|author=Graham Hurley
|title= Aurore
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Thrillers
|summary=History has taught us that wars can be won or lost on the strength of a country's intelligence and on the subversives who put country before self and undertake to collect and control that intelligence in a myriad of game-changing ways. Who better then to drop into Nazi-occupied France as an agent than a thirty mission veteran of Bomber Command whose pre-war incarnation as actor and Quaker have shaped a man with guile enough to ''make believe'' and trust enough to see his mission through to the end? Enter stage left, Billy Angell. Soon to be ''injured'' airman stranded in the French countryside and tasked with befriending a local woman responsible for the safety of resistants and with necessary ties to the upper echelons of the occupying German force. What's left for us to find out is whether Billy has talent enough to succeed in his new role as agent ''Thesp'' and make it back alive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977853</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen Dionne
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Guy Bolton
|summary=It's the spring of 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard of Oz'' is in production at MGM and it's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studio. The police department recognises that it's good for Hollywood that all goes smoothly and it's Detective Jonathan Crane's job to see that the crimes and misdemeanours of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpet. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and there's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Craine's got it easy and wouldn't know how to investigate a case if it came up and slapped him, but in Craine's mind all that's going to change.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>
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