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French Resistance #3
Legacy of Hate
In Nazi-occupied France, the assassination of a new German commandant by Amalie de Gruchy sparks a crisis in both Nazi Germany and the British secret service. Supposedly killed in a raid a few months previously, Amalie is now being pursued by, amongst others, the head of the German secret police and the mysterious Joanna Jonnson, a spy with a murky past. Amalie's beautiful sister, Liane de Gruchy - also thought to have been killed months before - comes out of hiding to help in the search for Amalie. But soon the Resistance finds itself with a much bigger problem as the Germans uncover British plans which, in the wrong hands, could change the course of the war.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2004
About the author
Alan Savage
48 books15 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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February 27, 2019
The first two book in this series were OK, quite engaging actually. But this one!
This author does not understand a single thing about women. The way he protrays them is more than disgusting. Imagine this: an extremely beautiful, in fact the most beautiful woman in France, of an aristocratic family and super, super rich, is also a spy for the SOE in Britain. So far so good. In the last book, she has been killed -- or so the enemy thinks. She has to find some very clever hideouts -- and what better place than a parisian brothel? Again, so far so good.
But you tell me, ladies: if you were stinking rich, and beautiful, and aristocratic, and had to hide in a brother for whatever reason, would you also voluntarily work there as a prostitute??? I mean, come on. You'd just pay the madam for letting you stay there, right? Not so Liane deGruchy.
"She genuinely enjoyed sex... and her Bohemian years before the war had accustomed her to more rough and ready methods. But always, she had been in control, because of her money and the prestige of her family, as well as her own dominant personality. She had never encountered a man who, when (she) held up her hand and said enough, did not immediately obey.
But that was outside of this brothel. She had only worked here on a few occasions.... It had been a strangely satisfying experience, to be forced to surrender herself absolutely to another man's lust, yet knowing it would be over in half an hour." WHAT??? What did I just read? Is this some sort of male rape fantasy the author is trying to push on us?
But it gets worse. Today, Colonel Roess is a customer, a man whom all the other prostitutes refuse to sleep with because of his --er -- unusual tastes. Liane knows this. She knows he is a terrible, terrible, evil, cruel man. Yet she voluntarily agrees to have paid sex with him. Oh, and this is also a man who is after her, who wants her dead, and actually thinks she IS dead. So what does Liane thinks when she follows him up the stairs? IS she scared, worried? No. "...to have sex with a man who wouldgive his all to be able to hang Liane de Gruchy was a hoot." that is all.
Yes, ladies, it would be a real hoot to give blowjobs to Nazi scum and have your backside whipped raw be him. Didn't you know it? No other explanation is given. It would be a hoot. That's all.
Then we have her best friend, Joanna, an American who is just as free sexualy and who is also a spy and who also has sex with Nazis as part of her work, in particular, one certain Nazi. I don't know. Maybe this is normal in Nicole's mind. I would suggest he talk to a few women, have them read these passages, in future, before he publishes more books. I've heard from someone else who's read another book of his in another series with similar passages: women sleeping in delight with the most awful creepy men alive.
Apart from that, the book has several formatting issues. It seems it was uploaded from a print version and converted to digital;as a result there are multiple spelling errors such as the u umlaut in Führer showing as Fiihrer, throughout the book. In other words, the book was converted and then published as an ebook without any proofreading whatsoever. There are multiple examples of this and other similar conversion errors, and it occurs in ALL of these books.
Mr Nicole needs some to put in some serious work to bring his books up to scratch.
This author does not understand a single thing about women. The way he protrays them is more than disgusting. Imagine this: an extremely beautiful, in fact the most beautiful woman in France, of an aristocratic family and super, super rich, is also a spy for the SOE in Britain. So far so good. In the last book, she has been killed -- or so the enemy thinks. She has to find some very clever hideouts -- and what better place than a parisian brothel? Again, so far so good.
But you tell me, ladies: if you were stinking rich, and beautiful, and aristocratic, and had to hide in a brother for whatever reason, would you also voluntarily work there as a prostitute??? I mean, come on. You'd just pay the madam for letting you stay there, right? Not so Liane deGruchy.
"She genuinely enjoyed sex... and her Bohemian years before the war had accustomed her to more rough and ready methods. But always, she had been in control, because of her money and the prestige of her family, as well as her own dominant personality. She had never encountered a man who, when (she) held up her hand and said enough, did not immediately obey.
But that was outside of this brothel. She had only worked here on a few occasions.... It had been a strangely satisfying experience, to be forced to surrender herself absolutely to another man's lust, yet knowing it would be over in half an hour." WHAT??? What did I just read? Is this some sort of male rape fantasy the author is trying to push on us?
But it gets worse. Today, Colonel Roess is a customer, a man whom all the other prostitutes refuse to sleep with because of his --er -- unusual tastes. Liane knows this. She knows he is a terrible, terrible, evil, cruel man. Yet she voluntarily agrees to have paid sex with him. Oh, and this is also a man who is after her, who wants her dead, and actually thinks she IS dead. So what does Liane thinks when she follows him up the stairs? IS she scared, worried? No. "...to have sex with a man who wouldgive his all to be able to hang Liane de Gruchy was a hoot." that is all.
Yes, ladies, it would be a real hoot to give blowjobs to Nazi scum and have your backside whipped raw be him. Didn't you know it? No other explanation is given. It would be a hoot. That's all.
Then we have her best friend, Joanna, an American who is just as free sexualy and who is also a spy and who also has sex with Nazis as part of her work, in particular, one certain Nazi. I don't know. Maybe this is normal in Nicole's mind. I would suggest he talk to a few women, have them read these passages, in future, before he publishes more books. I've heard from someone else who's read another book of his in another series with similar passages: women sleeping in delight with the most awful creepy men alive.
Apart from that, the book has several formatting issues. It seems it was uploaded from a print version and converted to digital;as a result there are multiple spelling errors such as the u umlaut in Führer showing as Fiihrer, throughout the book. In other words, the book was converted and then published as an ebook without any proofreading whatsoever. There are multiple examples of this and other similar conversion errors, and it occurs in ALL of these books.
Mr Nicole needs some to put in some serious work to bring his books up to scratch.
August 12, 2021
Another excellent novel in the "De Gruchy" WW2 SOE stories , despite some awful "Editing & spelling gaffs !!!" This book (3rd. in the series) is again full of suspense & actioned packed , with lots of unpredictable twists & turns --- I couldn't put this novel down & look forward to reading the "4th." again.
April 30, 2019
I enjoyed the simplicity of the first 2 books in this series, but the third one ran out of steam. I struggled to even give it 3 stars bearing in mind the quite dreadful proofreading and formatting, which spoiled it for me. Did nobody check before it went out?
March 5, 2018
Excellent
So authentic you felt you were there. A real page turner of true exploits from brave people. Very informative story
So authentic you felt you were there. A real page turner of true exploits from brave people. Very informative story
June 30, 2019
Very good book
Series gets better and better. So much emotion! If anyone likes this part of history these are the books for them.
Series gets better and better. So much emotion! If anyone likes this part of history these are the books for them.
November 21, 2020
Friend or foe
A great story hence the 5 stars. There friends and foes on both sides who are the real ones you will have to read the books to find out.
A great story hence the 5 stars. There friends and foes on both sides who are the real ones you will have to read the books to find out.
April 10, 2025
Shame about the misspelling but it’s a cracking story based on true events, the real resistance are all hero’s.
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