Diary of a dead man on leave
Downing, David, 1946-2019
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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 never should have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a 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 trying to reconnect with remaining members of Germany's suppressed communist party.
Main title:
Diary of a dead man on leave / David Downing.
Author:
Downing, David, 1946-, author
Imprint:
New York : Soho Crime, 2019.
Collation:
312 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781616958435 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92F
LC class:
PR6054.O868
Local class:
FT
Language:
English
BRN:
2488160