Speaker:

Paul Letters

Moderator:

Mr Peter Sidorko, University Librarian, HKU

Date:

30 April 2015 (Thursday)

Time:

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Venue:

Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong

Language:

English

by Alexandra Carlile Photography.

Paul Letters studied history, education, international affairs and literary journalism at the Universities of Cardiff, Oxford and Hong Kong, where he stayed on as a Senior Researcher. He teaches part-time at an international school and writes as a freelance journalist for the South China Morning Post and magazines ranging from IB Review to luxury lifestyle magazine Baccarat. Paul is currently working on a second novel, centred upon the true story of a mass escape from Hong Kong during World War II.

An old-fashioned love story weaves through an authentic wartime thriller.

In researching A Chance Kill, Paul met with professional historians throughout Europe, where he learned more about pre-war Warsaw, Prague’s nest of wartime conspirators, the ‘James Bond’ gadget workshop within London’s Natural History Museum, and Britain’s little-known first offensive of World War II.

Based upon the author’s grandmother’s experience, seventeen-year-old Polish catholic Dyta Zając finds herself forced away from wartime Warsaw due to her family’s shadowy connections. Dyta’s time on the run sets her on a path towards confronting the ultimate Nazi.

Half a continent away, an RAF bomber crew embarks upon Britain’s first raid of the war. Courtship edges Dyta’s destiny closer to that of members of the RAF crew – and toward the Allies’ most brazen covert operation to strike at the Nazi elite.