The German Numbers Woman: A Novel

By: Alan Sillitoe

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Synopsis: Blind Howard, an ex-RAF veteran, possesses an acute sense of #awareness, and can see almost better than the sighted. Morse code patterns his universe and keeps his #mind tuned to the big and sometimes bad world. Noble Laura, his doting wife, is loveliness personified. Then Howard becomes acquainted with the nefarious Richard, and soon the idyll of his life with Laura starts to crack. Morse is the common denominator in the alliance. But before long, Howard and his world of dots and dashes, dits and dans, takes on new darker horizons when he clicks into a drugs racket. Howard, the codebreaker, becomes Howard the buccaneer. He leaves lovely Laura for a wild voyage in search of a woman whose voice he has fallen in love with: and a sea-journey with maverick sailors on a heroin heist. Siletoe inhabits Howard's unseeing world with absolute conviction, providing a wealth of telling detail about a blind person's skilful negotiation of his everyday surroundings

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