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| Original title | The Key to Rebecca |
|---|---|
| Language | Norwegian |
| Author | Ken Follett |
| Year | Den norske Bokklubben, 1984 |
| First Published | 1980 |
| ISBN | 82-525-1226-7 |
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1942. World War II is raging, and German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel is having success after success with his Afrika Corps. The Nazis are planning to invade Cairo. The British are hunkering down, and doing everything possible to thwart the invasion. Rommel desperately needs access to British intelligence from their Headquarters in Cairo, in order to ensure his plan’s outcome. So Rommel sends a master spy into British occupied Egypt.The spy, known only as the “Sphinx, covertly enters the country, and with a few mishaps, makes his way to Cairo. He has with him a radio, a code to transmit the information secretly, based on Daphne Du Maurier’s book “Rebecca, and a piece of paper with the key to the code. Having spent much of his childhood in Cairo, the German–born spy, knows the city, language and many of its inhabitants well.The Sphinx’s task is not as easily accomplished as he once imagined. A British officer, Major Van Damme, with whom he shared past adversarial encounters, is soon on to him — and after him. Enter a beautiful Egyptian Jewess, Elene, who Van Damme wants to use as bait to capture the Nazi spy. Sparks fly between Van Damme and Elene from their first meeting, making it difficult for him to send her into danger.