Free (Kindle) Richard's Feet by Carey Harrison [Award-Win 1940s Literary ID Thriller]

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Richard's Feet by British author Carey Harrison (Wikipedia), a multiple award-winning playwright and novelist who is also the son of classic actor Rex Harrison (of My Fair Lady and Cleopatra fame), is the 1st novel in his The Heart Beneath quartet of historical literary thrillers which explore themes of post-WWII identity, this one beginning things in the late 1940s with an Englishman who goes in search of a woman he once loved during the pre-war years, amongst refugees in Soviet Germany, and eventually becomes an underworld boss after faking his death and adopting a new identity, even as he finds out he cannot fully escape the influence of the life he had before, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Odyssey imprint.

This was originally published in 1990 by Mackays of Cheltham, and won the UK Society of Writers’ Encore Award in 1990 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
In the bitter spring of 1948, an Englishman walks across Soviet Germany, against a tide of refugees, searching for the woman he fell in love with before the war…

He will become a lord of the underworld in a country rising from the ashes, where confidence is fast becoming a national trick, and where no one is who they claim to be.

For Richard Thurgo, a man eager to reinvent himself, it is heaven on earth.

Richard is presumed to be dead and buried.

But to be exact, a pair of feet are dead and buried - they alone remained intact, beneath the wreckage of a crashed and burnt-out jeep.

Richard is alive and ready to embrace a new identity.

Faking his own death, Richard adopts a new name and career on the Reeperbahn, Hamburg’s busy red-light district.

As Germany prospers in the fifties and sixties so does Richard, now an influential figure in the underworld, but two threats continue to hang over him — his own discarded identity and that of Germany’s.

Set in England and Germany around the time of the Second World War, Richard’s Feet is a magnificent story of intrigue and obsession. It follows the adventures of an unscrupulous Englishman whose formative experiences in the Germany of the thirties, both erotic and political, draw him back there after the war.

Winner of the 1990 UK Society of Writers’ Encore Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, Richard’s Feet is the first in the The Heart Beneath Quartet.The second and third books are Cley and Egon.

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"Richard's Feet"

"Richard is presumed to be dead and buried."


Yes, Richard is dead and buried, but his feet live on. Read this horrifying story of revengeful feet as they trample aside toothless men and bald ladies. Gasp in unbelieving terror as Richard's feet 'sit down' with unmindful aplomb in a gourmet restaurant.

Read this great story NOW. And make certain you have plenty of toenail polish.

Available only in fine bookstores.


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