| Title | : | The Dying Peace (The Man from MI5 Book 2) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 |
| Publication | : | Published December 10, 2022 |
“Petken’s masterful fast-paced story, and the constant sense of impending doom she created for her main characters in her #1 Bestseller, “The Man from Section Five, continues in, “The Dying Peace,” a spy thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.”
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pins all Britain’s hopes for peace on a face-to-face meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich, but behind their civilised discussions, Germany amasses armaments and moves its plans forward for its invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Gerhardt von Kessler continues to operate his deadly rogue operations in Britain, and he is always one step ahead of MI5.
Brinley Knight uncovers startling evidence against Sir Oswald Mosley, including a foreign dictator secretly funding the British Union of Fascists, and a conspiracy to overthrow the British government and King George VI in a violent coup.
As the political division in Britain grows, unexpected help for Brinley Knight and MI5 comes from a high-ranking officer in Hitler’s Nazi regime.
In Berlin, Ursula Engel prepares to return to London and join MI5, but Gerhardt von Kessler has other plans for her…
The Dying Peace (The Man from MI5 Book 2) Reviews
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It was ok.
I've read The Man From Section Five (book #1 of series) but I still found myself losing track of how some of the characters and their actions related to this book. I enjoyed the mystery and intrigue, I was rooting for Brin the whole time. The (lack of) ending was extremely frustrating; I can understand ending with a cliffhanger for the next book, but this ending tied up NO loose ends! It abruptly stops right in the middle of the storyline :-/
One thing that stood out to me was the number of grammatical errors throughout the entire book. Hopefully it's only the Kindle edition and not in print but it was so incredibly distracting, I would be embarrassed if I was the author! I don't know how these errors can be corrected but hopefully there is some way! -
I was lucky enough to be given an advance review copy of this book and Wow! She did it again. No wonder this author wins all these awards. Her writing is just excellent and the story is a terrific sequel to “The Man from Section Five”. I won’t write any spoilers, but if you have read the first book you won’t be disappointed with this one. If you haven’t read the first book you should, so you can enjoy this one even more.
Highly recommended. -
I just finished the 2nd book of the Brinley Knight series, The Dying Peace. I truly hope there will be a 3rd book in this series in the near future. Ms Petken is an outstanding writer who is meticulous with blending her research with fiction to create very believable characters & scenarios. I love the descriptions she fleshes out with both her ‘hero’s’ & ‘villains’!
I’ve read almost every one of Ms Petken’s books & look forward to more in the future! I love her style of writing! -
Storyline might benefit from condensation.
The basic plot of this story is interesting, but there is a lot of wasted space here. The reader ( me, for example ) now has to wait until follow-up book arrives. During the wait for book #2, this book I had moved on to other books and had to go back to volume 1 to refresh myself of the characters and plot. I prefer stories told in a single volume. -
Wow
This second book hit the ground running and didn't stop. Being a history buff and a child of the time, I heard my parents and grand parents talking about the circumstances leading to the war. My family had a name change because of antiGerman sentiment. Great read. -
Great spy thriller
I have throughly enjoyed this series. Jana Petken does a very good job of capturing the era she writes about. If you enjoy spy thriller’s, if you enjoy historical fiction, you will enjoy this series. -
I enjoyed book # 1 of this series but reading book #2 was just more of the same. I was glad that she continued with the characters but it was still depressing to read the dissension between the spies as well as between the factions in Britain.
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Unlike the first book in the series, The Dying Peace seemingly serve as a prelude to a brewing conflict. It has some deaths and the story progresses as expected, but there is no satisfying and major plot twist that resolve the conflict.
The story is engaging and makes it hard to put down the book. But the annoying issue of sloppy proofreading is still the issue here. There are at least five mistakes ranging from a typo to a misattribution of probably one of the most popular biblical verse. It's hard to get immersed in a book when every once in a while you notice such a glaring mistake.
