The Torch of Tangier
$34.20
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2012
Summary
Under the pressure of war, heroes arise in unusual places. In Aileen Baron’s The Torch of Tangier, the main character is not a brave soldier stolen from his home; on the contrary, she is an archeologist.
World War II transformed Lily Sampson’s job into a nightmare. She should be uncovering Neanderthal artifacts; instead she is stuck in Tangier with the rest of the team, awaiting clearance to dig from Franco’s Guardia Civil.
But that doesn’t stop Lily from working. Rec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590584323 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590584325 |
| Author: | Aileen G. Baron |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Lily Sampson Mysteries |
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Critics Review
Baron introduced Lily in A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes (2002), a drama of pre-World War II Jerusalem where she was a pawn in an ever-escalating international game of double cross and deceit that will effortlessly transport lovers of historical mysteries to another time and place. –Booklist
Aileen G. Baron
Aileen Baron has a Ph.D. in archaeology and taught for twenty years in the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. Her many years of archaeological fieldwork in the Middle East include a year at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem as an NEH scholar, and director of the overseas campus of California State Universities at the Hebrew University. Her residence in Switzerland, the hub of the antiquities trade, and her experience in museums has given her an insight into the underside of the trade in ancient art, the focus of her latest mystery, The Gold Of Thrace.
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