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Trouble Is My Name
Trouble Is My Name
Trouble Is My Name
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Trouble Is My Name

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A missing politician sucks Drum into the three-ring circus of Cold War Germany
On the eve of becoming a vice-presidential candidate, Fred Severing vanishes in Germany, where he made his name twelve years earlier during the madness that followed World War II. To find the American, his party hires globe-trotting private detective Chester Drum, and it isn’t long before Drum’s investigation lands him in the Rhine River along with an elderly war criminal.  Drum is meeting with Wilhelm Rust, a mid-level ex-Nazi, when Communist spies storm their boat. Drum jumps into the river, taking Rust with him, and inadvertently saves the ex-Nazi’s life. His investigation may be all wet, but Drum isn’t one to quit. Finding Severing will mean lying to West Germans, East Germans, and Nazis, and perfecting the triple-cross that is the favorite pastime of European Cold Warriors.  
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Release dateDec 18, 2012
ISBN9781453290798
Trouble Is My Name
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Stephen Marlowe

Stephen Marlowe (1928–2008) was the author of more than fifty novels, including nearly two dozen featuring globe-trotting private eye Chester Drum. Born Milton Lesser, Marlowe was raised in Brooklyn and attended the College of William and Mary. After several years writing science fiction under his given name, he legally adopted his pen name, and began focusing on Chester Drum, the Washington-based detective who first appeared in The Second Longest Night (1955). Although a private detective akin to Raymond Chandler’s characters, Drum was distinguished by his jet-setting lifestyle, which carried him to various exotic locales from Mecca to South America. These espionage-tinged stories won Marlowe acclaim, and he produced more than one a year before ending the series in 1968. After spending the 1970s writing suspense novels like The Summit (1970) and The Cawthorn Journals (1975), Marlowe turned to scholarly historical fiction. He lived much of his life abroad, in Switzerland, Spain, and France, and died in Virginia in 2008. 

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    Trouble Is My Name is an action-packed Cold War thriller that takes Drum to the divided Germany of the late fifties. He tangles with Communists, ex-Nazis, and fortune hunters both in West Germany and behind the iron curtain in East Berlin - although interestingly this was written a few years before the construction of the Berlin Wall where a journey between the two sides involved getting through guard posts but not having to brace that barrier. The story feels far more like an espionage adventure story than a private eye caper. It is quite a good read but has a darkness and a gloom about it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    When a potential presidential candidate goes missing, Chet Drum is hired to find him. He tracks the politician to Germany and then has to find out-kidnapped or traitor?

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