The Bookworm A Novel

Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 292 pages; "Europe, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into a Belgian monastery just before Nazi art thieves plan to whisk everything of value back to Berlin. But the ersatz man of the cloth is no thief. Instead, that night he adds an old leather Bible to the monasterys library and then escapes. London, 2017: A construction worker discovers a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist, all that remains of a courier who died in a V-2 rocket attack. The woman who will put these two disparate events togetherand understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to preventis Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt, Lara the Bookworm, to her friends. Shes also experiencing some woeful marital troubles. Lara will learn the significance of six musty Dictaphone cylinders recorded after D-Day by Noel Cowardsecretly, a British agent reporting directly to Winston Churchilland understand precisely why that leather Bible played such a pivotal role in turning Hitler's guns to the East. And she will discover the new secret pact negotiated by the nefarious Russian president and his newly elected American counterpartmaverick and dealmakerand the evil it portends."

Product Info

ISBN: 1681776413

ISBN-13: 9781681776415

Publisher: Pegasus Books

Year: 2018

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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