Diary of a dead man on leave / David Downing.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616958435
- ISBN: 161695843X
- ISBN: 9781616958435
- ISBN: 161695843X
- Physical Description: 295 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2019]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission. Josef Hofmann was not the returned Argentinian immigrant he'd said he was--he was a communist spy under Moscow's command to try to reconnect with any remnants of Germany's suppressed communist party. Hofmann's bosses believe the common workers are the only way to stop the German war machine from within. Posing as a railroad man, Hofmann sets out on his game of "Russian roulette," approaching Hamm's ex-party members one at a time and delicately feeling out their allegiances. He always knew his mission would most likely end in his death, and he was satisfied to make that sacrifice for the revolution if it could help stop Hitler and his abominable ideology. But as he grows close to the Gersdorffs, accidentally stepping into the role of the father Walter never had, Hofmann begins to wish for another kind of hope in his life"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Spy stories. Communists > Germany > Fiction. Boardinghouses > Fiction. Diaries > Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Fiction. Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Spy stories. Suspense fiction. Spy stories. Thrillers (Fiction) Spy fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC DOWNING, D (Text) | 36123132913565 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | FIC DOWNING (Text) | 34010144431433 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Rowayton Library | F DOW (Text) | 33625122824266 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Seymour Public Library | F DOWNING (Text) | 34043144492642 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | FIC DOWNING, D (Text) | 34005145461967 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Southbury Public Library | DOWNING (Text) | 34019145871356 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Stafford Library | FIC DOWNING (Text) | 34061145509867 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Thompson Public Library | Downing (Text) | 34038139126692 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Tolland Public Library | F DOW (Text) | 34051144581835 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |