In a world
Frozen in time
In Breath of the Adamastor, a Canadian marine biologist is drawn into a dangerous web of Allied espionage in neutral Portugal during World War II. Her mission to study sea turtles is quickly overshadowed by a world of deception and moral ambiguity.
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For readers who like historical intrigue & morally complicated characters
Suzanne Paleczny, the artist from Whitehorse who created the new cover, described the novel as “a wonderful tale of historical fiction.”
“The overall effect is excellent” wrote Mark Skalin of Oshawa.
Matthew Hurst of Barrie summed it up as “more Graham Greene than James Bond, but more charm and warmth than either of them.”
Breath of the Adamastor
WWII
Portugal
Espionage
Sea turtles
What sets this story apart?
A WWII novel without a battlefield
A spy story set in neutral Portugal
A marine biologist caught between science and espionage
A story about refugees, ambiguity, love and survival
This richly-textured, historically-accurate adventure illuminates a lesser-known front of the Second World War: Portugal’s precarious neutrality and its shadow world of spies, refugees, and religious tensions.
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