Diary of a dead man on leave
Downing, David2020
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In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and rents a room. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the son of the widow who ran the boarding house, comes across the man's carefully hidden diary. What Walter finds is a chronicle by a secret agent on a deadly mission. Hofmann was not the returned Argentinian immigrant he'd claimed to be - he was a communist spy under Moscow's command, trying to reconnect with members of Germany's suppressed communist party. Though he knows it will likely end in his death, Hofmann approaches each of Hamm's ex-party members, delicately feeling out their allegiances. But as he grows close to the Gersdorff family, Hofmann begins to want another kind of hope in his life.
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Imprint:
Soho Crime, 2020
Collation:
272
ISBN:
9781641291293164129129X
Language:
English
BRN:
1957612
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westcroft Library | Adult fiction | Thriller | Available |