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The one man

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First editionDescription: 416 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781250079503 (hardcover)
  • 1250079500 (hardcover)
  • 9781509808663
  • 1509808663
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3607.R654 O535 2016
Contents:
Prologue -- Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Part Four -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Sources
Summary: "1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the U.S. suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, he is Semitic looking, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Polish ghetto. Now, the government wants him to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life: Nathan must sneak into Auschwitz, on a mission to find and escape with one man. This historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely compelling"--
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F GRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000548168

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-416).

Prologue -- Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Part Four -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographical Sources

"1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendl is separated from his family and sent to the men's camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life's work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it. Nathan Blum works behind a desk at an intelligence office in Washington, DC, but he longs to contribute to the war effort in a more meaningful way, and he has a particular skill set the U.S. suddenly needs. Nathan is fluent in German and Polish, he is Semitic looking, and he proved his scrappiness at a young age when he escaped from the Polish ghetto. Now, the government wants him to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life: Nathan must sneak into Auschwitz, on a mission to find and escape with one man. This historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely compelling"--

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