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Collection: Adult Mystery
Call Number: M
Author: Downing, David
Title: Diary of a dead man on leave
Summary, etc. note: "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"--

International Standard Book Number: 9781616958435 (hardback)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9781616958442 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Classification number: PR6054.O868
Item number: D53 2019
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 823/.914
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC041000
Classification number: FIC006000
Dates associated with a name: 1946-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: David Downing.
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: Soho Press
Date of publication: 2019
: New York, NY :
: Soho Crime,
: [2019]
Extent: 295 pages
Dimensions: 24 cm
: rdacontent
: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: n
: rdacarrier
: volume
: nc
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T
Purchase price: 27.95
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: FICTION / Biographical
Subject: FICTION / Espionage
Source of term: gsafd
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Suspense fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Spy stories.
: acquire
: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xn15 2019-04-24 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
: xk29 2018-10-11
: xk02 2019-05-10 to CALM (telework)
: xk29 2018-10-11 ONIX to CIP via xk04 for review
: xk04 2018-10-12

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