Lying with the Enemy: A Novel

Lying with the Enemy: A Novel
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Peyton Place with Nazis

Surviving under occupation

Good summer read, though a bit sad....

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Murder most curious

Lying with the Enemy: A Novel
Tim Binding
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In Lying with the Enemy, Tim Binding has written a novel that is part war story, part murder mystery, and wholly compelling. Set on Guernsey during the final years of World War II, the story traces the impact of German occupation in the British Channel Islands on both conquerors and conquered alike. Binding makes it clear that the Nazi presence on Guernsey was a fairly civilized affair from the get-go; aside from an abortive raid shortly after the Germans invaded in 1940, the British surrendered the Channel Islands to the enemy, leaving their residents to forge an uneasy accommodation with their new masters. By 1943, when Binding's novel begins, the Germans have been on Guernsey for three years and an inevitable degree of fraternization has become the norm. This is especially apparent in the complicated relationship between Major Lentsch, his island-born lover, Isobel van Dielen, and her former flame (and Guernsey's current chief constable) Ned Luscombe. When Isobel is murdered early on in the proceedings, it is up to Ned to solve the crime--a task that throws him into a reluctant liaison with his rival. As he and Lentsch join forces, their investigation leads them into the back-street world of twisted passions and unholy alliances among islanders and occupiers alike. Meanwhile, the professional association between a world-weary cop and a Nazi-hating German officer turns gradually into a fast though unlikely friendship. Lying with the Enemy is both fine historical fiction and a remarkably acute study of the troubling choices essentially good people make when trapped in morally ambiguous circumstances. --Sheila Bright

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In 1943, 145,000 Germans had been slaughtered in Stalingrad. The tide of the war was beginning to turn.

But not on the quiet, idyllic island of Guernsey, the only British territory to be occupied by German troops in the Second World War. Here Nazi officers still party with local girls, love affairs blossom, and the amateur dramatic society continues to stage its theatricals, if with suspiciously jackbooted pirates in Peter Pan. Then the body of a young woman, her nose and mouth filled with cement, turns up, and the comedy of manners played out by the collaborators and their captors turns sour. Food becomes scarce, facades of civility crack, the skies over Guernsey darken, and the search for a killer unearths horrors shared by the islanders and the enemy alike in this novel that Antonia Fraser names "the most stimulating and also the most exciting I read this year. A novel of rewarding subtlety and insight into the best and worst of human nature" (The Times--London)

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Peyton Place with Nazis.......2007-03-04

How did Dorothy Sayers' couplet go? -- "As I grow old and totter toward the tomb, The less I care who sleeps with whom"? Well, she wouldn't have cared much for this bed-hopping yarn. Too bad, Binding writes with a fine knowledge of the place and period and keen insight into humankind. And there's ultimately a murder to be solved here...but he doesn't get to it until page 111, for Sherlock's sake! By that time, watching the young women of Guernsey make sluts of themselves has become tiresome.

Surviving under occupation.......2005-10-05

This novel is an interesting story set on the Island of Guernsey circa early 1943. When the British evacuated from the island in 1940, many residents stayed behind. They are now in dire straits. The German occupiers limit their food rations to the point that residents are driven to desperate measures to survive. There is a thriving black market. Attractive women, and even some not so attractive, augment their food rations by consorting with German soldiers, particularly officers who can supply their needs.

There is a split in the German command. Major Lentsch is an administrative officer, but has no control over the construction operations fortifying the island, and no control over the head of the German police. Ned Luscombe, a British police officer trapped on the island when he stayed behind during the evacuation, has been made the local police inspector after mass arrests of members of the police force. When Lentsch's woman friend Isobel is murdered, and her body dumped in a German fortification off limits to the Guernsey civilians, Ned is given the job of investigating the case (Isobel had at one time been a love interest of Ned).

There is a large cast of characters hard to keep track of - native islanders, Germans, and forced laborers brought in by the Germans to build the fortifications. Everyone has his or her own agenda. The story is interrupted by a large number of flashbacks to explain past events and relationships. It is a slow read, and it is sometimes difficult to maintain an understanding of a plot element.

The Germans are losing the war, having suffered big defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa. Some, like Lentsch, see the handwritten on the wall. Others remain rabid Nazi's loyal to Hitler. In the meantime, the murder case in turning over stones exposing other crimes. There is a somewhat surprising ending.

Good summer read, though a bit sad...........2004-09-06

I've had a copy of LYING WITH THE ENEMY in a stack of books next to my reading chair since it was first published in 1998. I finally read it to prove to myself that my addiction to book buying is justified. When I bought the book and read the information on the dust jacket, I thought it would prove to be one of those delicious treats one sometimes experiences reading works of fiction in late summer and it has. These days, I tend to find nonfiction and history more fulfilling than fiction, and when you reach my age and the "so many books, so little time" problem becomes evident, you don't want to waste time on an inferior book. Lately, I've found reading mysteries disappointing lately because the current penchant for forensics can only take one so far. Plot is still as important to me as is character development, though many writers of mysteries have difficulty developing a plot.

I used to be able to count on British mystery writers, but many of the good ones are dead, and the few I admire don't tend to crank out a book a year, thus I run out of fiction fairly rapidly. Tim Binding's novel is therefore welcome, and I can honestly say that I don't feel that I wasted my time reading his book. I hope his protagonist Ned will turn up again in later books, not only because Binding left a number of loose ends remaining at the end of his book, but because Ned is a likeable fellow who is good to his mum. More importantly, Binding knows how to develop a tight and believable plot.

Binding has selected a tumultuous era for the setting of his story, and done a great job of describing life on one of the channel islands during the Nazi occupation. I don't know a lot about these islands, except that they are the last remnants of the British holdings in France dating from the days of Agincourt. His title is a double entendre involving lying as a form of making up untrue stories and lying as something you do in bed.

Any illusions one has about the Nazis is dispelled by Binding's characterization of their behavior on Guernsey Island. Unfortunately, some of the local girls (including Ned's old love) find the Nazi officers attractive - to the point of virtually prostituting themselves. Undoubtedly, these girls will be treated by their countrymen as collaborators after the war. Most of the islanders are starving so it might be understandable that some women turned to prostitution for the purpose of acquiring food for loved ones. Smuggling and making a profit at the expense of those in dire straights is harder to understand, however. According to Binding, some of the girls who became involved with the Nazis may have thought of their relationships as a `step up' and/or a chance to escape the tedium of island living. Perhaps some of them thought they were "in love."

The novel reads well with hardly a glitch. The only criticism I have is this, what mother would accept her son's involvement with a girl she detested before the war as a positive outcome after the girl had served as a Nazi concubine, even if the girl in question learned to cook! Binding may be good to his own mother, but I think he has a way to go before he understands women, at least women of the WWII era. Otherwise, this book is a good summer read.

Excellent.......2004-02-09

Suberbly written and fascinating, this novel is a wonderful mystery as well as a study of human nature during wartime. The characters are well developed and complex and the situation they find themselves in is finely described. One of the better novels I've read in some time and one that left me thinking about just what enemy occupation can do to one's soul.

Murder most curious.......2004-01-28

"Lying With the Enemy" is a mystery at its core, but it is so much more than that, especially given the setting it takes place in. That setting is the Channel Island of Guernsey during World War II.

Germany has occupied this and the other Channel Islands for several years at the time this novel opens, and there is an uneasy peace between the island's inhabitants and their temporary German masters. Then the daughter of one of the island's most influential families is found murdered, beginning a chain of events that threatens to literally blow the lid off of the fragile truce.

Aside from the exploration and investigation of the murder, there is a fascinating interplay between the Germans and the islanders. Not all of the Germans view themselves as conquerors, the so-called "Master Race" - and not all of the islanders view themselves as conquered. Indeed, some are quite ready to live with the current situation - but not all.

I was also fascinated by the fact that Hitler is not mentioned by name from the German point of view for most of the book. Instead, the German characters refer to him in the Biblical sense - that is, when they think of Hitler at all they refer to him as Him or He, with a capital H. From my own point of view that is, admittedly, quite repellent, but looking at it from their standpoint it was quite understandable.

This is definitely not a book for everyone. But if you're willing to take the time to get into it you won't be disappointed.

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Robert Silverberg has been one of SF's most prolific and popular writers since the mid-1950s. His science-fantasy stories set on the huge, exotic world called Majipoor began with Lord Valentine's Castle (1980), which the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls "polished but rather languid." In Lord Prestimion, the hero Prestimion takes the throne as Coronal, coruler of Majipoor, a millennium before Lord Valentine's reign. His crowning follows the long, ruinous civil war to overthrow a usurping Coronal, a war now literally forgotten: Prestimion's sorcerers have imposed amnesia on the people of Majipoor in hope of preventing any further uprising. Such a memory wipe reeks of wrongness and seems to have caused the infectious plague of insanity. Meanwhile, one very bad man, who is a leading rebel and warmonger, recovers his memories and escapes to make new mischief. After various colorful, almost dream-like travelogues, the situation is saved--a little too easily?--by telepathic gadgetry. (The device in question and several crossover characters appear in the 1982 story-cycle Majipoor Chronicles.) Smoothly written but somewhat short on real suspense, even in the swashbuckling comic sequence when Prestimion's Regent fights and kills at least 21 would-be assassins during one morning's office paperwork. It's just another day in the life of a Majipoor civil servant. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk

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Prestimion should be jubilant. As the new Coronal Lord of Majipoor, the Starburst Crown is his at lost. But the victorious lord is burdened with a great secret: he gained the throne through a bloody civil war -- a war no one remembers! With the aid of a phalanx of sorcerers, Prestimion dropped the awesome Spell of Oblivion over his people to heal his war-torn land. Forgotten now are the betrayals, the intrigues, and the slaughter. Only Prestimion and two of his surviving comrades-in-arms know anything happened at all.

Yet Prestimion must still account for his world's devastation and do the impossible: bring to justice the kinsman who languishes in the dungeon because no one can recall his unforgivable crime. And in his hour of triumph, Prestimion will face a threat to his kingdom for more insidious than war -- a twisted madness that cannot be controlled....

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Prestimion should be jubilant. As the new Coronal Lord of Majipoor, the Starburst Crown is his at last. But the victorious lord is burdened with a great secret: he gained the throne through a bloody civil war -- a war no one remembers! With the aid of a phalanx of sorcerers, Prestimion dropped the awesome Spell of Oblivion over his people to heal his war-torn land. Forgotten now are the betrayals, the intrigues, and the slaughter. Only Prestimion and two of his surviving comrades-in-arms know that anything happened at all. Yet Prestimion must still account for his world's devastation and do the impossible: bring to justice the kinsman who languishes in the dungeon because no one can recall his unforgivable crime. And in his hour of triumph, Prestimion will face a threat to his kingdom far more insidious than war -- a twisted madness that cannot be controlled....

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Lord - Please give Prestimiom some character!.......2005-09-16

For all its shortcomings, I still found this an enjoyable read. After thinking about why I found Lord Prestimion not as satisfying as the previous novels, I feel my frustration originates from Mr Silverberg's giving us a flawed character in Prestimion. Here is a man who fought a war and then chose to remove the memory of that war from every mind on the planet. His rationale? Well, Majipoor has never had a war before. This is Prestimion's first poor value judgement from the last novel.

Now, in this new book, Prestimion has doubts and angst and while chewing his nails to the quick, he allows the notorious Procurator Dantirya Sambail to escape from the royal dungeons. And so now we have the plot for this novel- saving the planet from the insanity the inhabitants are experiencing as a result of having their minds tampered with, and fighting the evil Procurator whom Prestimion didn't have the balls to put to death. (Poor value judgement number two.)

It's very frustrating to care about a character one cannot admire- and wants to wallop a good one in his derriere.

That said, the other characters are marvelous. Prestimion's close friends are a delight, Dekkeret is given good characterization, Maundigan-Klimd is fascinatng, and the main "character" - Majipoor- is as marvelous as ever. Not much excitement, except for the misery- for both the inhabitants and the reader- of detailed descriptions of incidents of insanity, but if you've come to love this world and its characters, you won't feel you've wasted your money.

YAWN... Very boring.. the worst of the series thus far........2004-09-08

Well, even though this book was quite long, not much actually happened in it. The storyline at the end of this one hasn't really changed much at all since the last book. Basically this whole novel was centered around the Procurator of Nimoya's escape from Prestimion and the Coronal's efforts to locate him.. The spreading madness on Majipoor was emphasized but nothing was ever done about it be Prestimion.. Most of the book was taken up by descriptions of the landscape and fauna of the places that Prestimion journeyed through.. Nothing really exciting or surprising happened at all. Yawn.. Wouldn't reccomend this one. I guess I'll go ahead and read the last of the series since I've already come this far, but I don't really have high hopes for it..

Colorful, beautifully-written but thin planetary romance........2004-01-20

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This is Silverberg's sixth Majipoor book, and it's a bit thin.
I've read and liked the previous five -- this is Jack Vance "Big
Planet" country: big, colorful landscapes, strange flora & fauna,
teeming cities, richly-caparisoned nobility, exotic aliens, bits of
higher-tech in a metal-poor, basically nineteenth-century
civilisation. Good thick light escape-reading, which is just what I
was in the mood for. I noticed the Vancian rodomontade more this
time, because there's very little plot here, maybe a novella's worth:
Prestimion is crowned as Coronal after winning a disastrous civil
war (in Sorcerors of Majipoor). He's decided to heal the scars of war
by -- removing (by sorcery, offstage) all memories of the war.
Naturally, this has unforeseen consequences, not the least of which
is one of the rebel leaders trying to start a new civil war. And he
meets a girl and makes her his Queen. Well, that's about it until
Prestimion #3.

Mind you, this is by no means a bad book, but, thinking back, I found
Sorcerers to be the weakest Majipoor book up until now, so I suspect
the well is running dry. Unless you're a diehard Majipoor fan, I'd
wait for the paperback or a library copy. And I believe I'll let
someone else be the guinea-pig for Prestimion #3.

Cheers -- Pete Tillman

Not too good... but not too bad either........2001-08-18

I agree with previous reviewers, who say that this book seems to be all about Prestimion's well nigh endless travelling over the globe and about describing every wonderful thing he sees, which is boring. Downright boring. But still, this was a pretty entertaining book in between those endless descriptions, which is more than can be said of many modern novels... So I still give this three stars. I'd give it four, if it didn't show quite so many similarities to Valentine Pontifex (including the "battle" of minds in the end of the book which also ends the war). All in all I recommend that you read this book if you like the Majipoor books, but I wouldn't try this as your first Majipoor-book.

Just a travelogue..........2000-11-19

This sequel to "Sorcerers of Majipoor" has to rank as one of Silverberg's weakest efforts. "Sorcerers" was a simple enough story but it was reasonably compelling; however, in "Lord Prestimion" not much happens. The Coronal and his lieutenants traipse about the globe for several hundred pages unitl it's time to wrap things up. Even Silverberg's luminous prose can't make up for the fact that there isn't much of a story to be told.

Fundamentally, Majipoor makes no sense. The larger a planet, the less unified it would be and the more unstable the politics. On Majipoor, we are asked to believe, not only is there one language and culture but the same political system has existed without change for thousands of years. With a sufficiently vigorous plot, one can overlook this and suspend one's disbelief, but there's not enough going on here to distract you from the man behind the curtain (so to speak).

Jack Vance's Big Planet, by contrast, depicts a giant-size world as it probably would be --- a thousand contentious cultures, no central political control of any kind, technology limited only by the lack of metals. Surely Silverberg is familiar with this venerable work (in many ways, one of Vance's best); but Majipoor is fantasy, not SF. Still, we know Silverberg can do much better.

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This story takes place on Mistworld in the city of Mistport. Mistworld is a rebel world and has been fending off the Empire for several hundred years. But now things are starting to get out of control.

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Creative, delicious raw food with variety.......2007-05-25

Some of the challenge in being on a vegetarian raw diet is to have variety and creativity and not take hours or days to make. Before this book, my husband and I would have lots of smoothies for lunch and a huge salad for dinner, but it gets boring after a while. I couldn't get my husband to stay on a100% raw diet. We were thrilled to buy Bryan Au's Raw In Ten Minutes. The photos looked very appealing.

The first recipe we tried was Macaroni and Cheese. We both loved it. I didn't make it in under 10 minutes - most likely because it was the first time doing it and I didn't have the right tools - madolin slicer and Blend-Tec Blender. In any occupation, if you don't have the right tools, it just makes it that much harder. I can see, if we are in it for the long haul, both tools would be a good investment. I had made so much Macaroni and cheese that we had enough for 3 more meals - so the 2nd and 3rd meals definitely were less than 10 minutes in preparation.

The second recipe we tried was Pasta Alfredo - again delicious - and so different from the Macaroni and Cheese. If you are coming from a traditional cooked diet, don't get into "Oh, it doesn't taste like the real cooked Macaroni and Cheese or Pasta Alfredo." Be open to the new taste and excellent nutrition you get for being 100% raw. Some people get too attached to the names of a dish.

We tried the Orange Delight Dressing and Sweet Mustard Dressing - both great. If you triple the recipe, this will also reduce your time for future meals.

We tried the Chocolate Chip Cookies and Ginger Cookies. Again, I didn't have the right tools, but it all tasted great in the end. With the ginger cookies, I doubled the amount of ginger, because we really like a strong ginger taste and it proved right - gave us a real kick. Just from the few recipes we tried so far, my husband told me he could be on a 100% raw diet. When we finish all the recipes, I will come back to give more feedback.

By the way, we also have Bryan's DVD: Raw In 10 Minutes. That was really helpful - seeing how it's done. All the recipes he demonstrated on the DVD were less than 10 minutes, plus he gives you additional recipes: Raw Organic Brownies, Pate (or it could be Sate), and Strawberry Cream Pie.

A word on the negative reviews: I think it is healthy to have constructive criticism, but some of those reviews were down right nasty.

Bottom Line: We can't wait to try the other recipes. We gave 4 stars; we wanted to give 4.5 stars, but it wasn't available. We didn't give 5 stars, because there is always room for improvement. Thank you, Bryan for your fabulous contribution to the Raw Food community.

Quickies.......2007-05-13

Fabulous for people on the go that do not have hours to prepare what they eat and want to eat healthy.

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Raw in Ten Minutes
Bryan Au
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6ZSY4

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