'Atomic Blonde' is focus of Thursday book club
Midweek update: Speeding Bullet hosts Pioneer Library book club at 6 p.m. Dec. 19
Jump into a spy thriller set in the late 1980s in this week’s book club hosted at Speeding Bullet Comics.
In connection with the Pioneer Library, Speeding Bullet Comics, 614 N. POrter Ave. in Norman, OK, will host a discussion at 6 p.m. Dec. 19.
In this program, we will be discussing The Coldest City - also published as Atomic Blonde -- by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart.
The book is set in November 1989.
Publisher description follows:
Communism is collapsing, and soon the Berlin Wall will be torn down by both the East and West.
But there is one last situation for MI6, Britain's intelligence services, to resolve. Two weeks ago, an undercover MI6 officer was killed in Berlin. He was carrying information from a source in the East — a list that allegedly contains the name of every espionage agent working in Berlin, on all sides.
No list was found on his body.
MI6 sent in Lorraine Broughton, an experienced spy with no existing ties to Berlin, to root out the list. But she walked into a powderkeg of social unrest, counter-espionage, defections gone bad and secret assassinations. Then, on the night the Wall came down, her superior — MI6's chief officer in Berlin — was shot and killed in the street.
Now Lorraine has returned, to tell her story. And nothing is quite what it seems.
The Book Club sessions are hosted by Dave Brown and are designed for adults. You can register here: https://bit.ly/4gz7qF7 . Or feel free to show up and we will get you registered!
Matthew Price, matthew@matthewLprice.com, has written about the comics industry for more than two decades. He is the co-owner of Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman, OK.