Thirteen O’Clock

One day in March 1945, in recently liberated Paris, a nervous George Orwell burst into Ernest Hemingway’s hotel room and asked to borrow a pistol. He was afraid, he said, that someone was trying to kill him.

But who would want to kill Orwell?

In this suspenseful fictional answer, Thurston Clarke blends the facts of Orwell’s life with a thrilling tale of intrigue that begins forty years after Orwell borrowed Hemingway’s revolver, when Orwell biographer Gina Baldwin narrowly escapes a gunman’s bullet on the remote island of Jura. As Gina searches for a lost notebook of Orwell’s she uncovers a treacherous betrayal in the Spanish Civil War that lies at the black heart of a mystery that sounds suspiciously like Big Brother’s 1984…