The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson is a book of epic proportions spanning the years 1940 to 1989 and ranging in scope through England, Germany, Portugal and back to England. It tells of spies and counter-spies in neutral Portugal; Germany’s race to build atomic powered weapons, and the ruthlessness of the British, German and Russian intelligence agencies throughout World War Two and the Cold War.
It is also a story of the complicated personal lives behind all of those scenes, full of tremendous depth and colour. At the soul of the book is the fateful, heart-wrenching love story between Andrea Aspinall, a young English mathematician recruited as a spy while at Oxford, and Karl Voss, a German military attaché she meets in Lisbon. Robert Wilson’s beautiful writing brought them to life for me in such a way that I can’t imagine I’ll ever forget them.
This is simply a brilliant story, filled with drama, suspense, intrigue, sadness and, ultimately, love. I read it first on Kindle and then bought it as a second-hand paper back published in 2001 by Harper Collins. I consider it a treasure and an absolute 5 star read.
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