Villi Asgeirsson

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Mont Noir (Frank and Celestina, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Book Two in the Frank and Celestina Trilogy. January 1939. When the British Foreign Minister receives a phone call from Berlin, Amsterdam must be warned. Forces within the Dutch government are working on staging a terrorist attack on their own soil to trigger war with Germany, but is the threat taken seriously and will they prevent mass casual-ties? When Celestina is flown from Barcelona to Berlin, she expects anything. Except being assigned to Amsterdam by the Nazis to stage a terrorist attack that will trigger war. Horrified by the idea of working for the enemy and killing civilians, she must choose between her own life or the lives of millions. Frank has settled in Amsterdam and is making a living as a pho tographer. He enjoys capturing the city and reporting news for the papers. When an old aquaintance from Barcelona arrives in the city, he is dragged into events that may cost millions of lives. He must figure out what Celestina is up to before he becomes the first victim. Marleen enjoys being a jazz singer, but the letter from Germany saying she must return sounds like a death sentence. She has two weeks to vanish, find a new life, new identity, new country to live in. Frank may be her ticket out of here, but as they lose control of events, her hope of escape is all but gone.

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Autor

Villi Asgeirsson was born in Iceland as Major Tom ascended to the skies, to be lost forever. He spent the seventies learning to read and write. He also moved houses a lot, having lived in at least six places by the time he was ten.

On his tenth birthday, he received a small transistor radio and was scared witless by a huge spider sitting on his chest. This may have formed him in a small way, or it may be irrelevant. Such is the nature of our human existence. There are no absolutes and we may never know what matters until much later, if at all.

The eighties were spent listening to questionable music and dressing badly. He also tried to learn the guitar, but the dang things never stayed in tune so he gave up.

He moved to London in the nineties to study audio engineering. If that guitar thing didn't work for him, at least he could record other people playing. He worked as a live engineer for a while. As impatience would have it, he moved again at the end of the twentieth century, this time to the Netherlands. Supposedly to have a normal life. He still lives there with a wife, child and cat and spends his time working for a major airline, writing and dabbling in photography.

First attempt at writing were stories, written in childhood. He played with poetry as a teen, even if reading poetry is something he still can't do easily. His first attempt at a novel in 1997 was uninspiring. His second, in 2001, was cut short by world events. It wasn't very good either. The first successful attempt at novel writing, Under the Black Sand, was published in 2013. People seemed enthusiastic about it so we got Blood and Rain and now Mont Noir.

The author translated Under the Black Sand into Icelandic in 2019 and 2021 saw the publishing of two translations of Blood and Rain, in Portuguese and Italian. Moments, a collection of short stories is in the works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Villi Asgeirsson
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005861322
• Artikelnr.: 70646150