Cave dwellers : a novel
Title:
Cave dwellers : a novel
Author:
ISBN:
9780307270832
9780307455154
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
339 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Subtitle from jacket.
Contents:
At Home with the Baroness von F... -- Crime in America -- From the Kreuzberg to Hell -- Librarians in Exile -- Patriots of the Wrong Era -- Strength Through Joy -- Setback Theory -- Bodies on the Second Floor -- Netting Men Like Shoals of Cod -- One Thinks of Dying Heroically -- The Vampire Did Not Disappoint -- Be Careful About Breathing -- Golden Pheasants -- Cousin Peter Is Ill -- Trying to Count Bullets -- The High Point of the Season -- Do You Truly Want to Know? -- Christ on a Rocking Horse -- When Wars Start -- The Naïveté of Youth -- What Herr Boar Has to Say -- Foolish and Dangerous -- On the Road with the Baroness von F...
Personal Subject:
Summary:
"A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an eleventh-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counter-intelligence agency, brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth league, and soon dispatches him to Washington, D.C. on a perilous mission. Despite his best efforts, Oskar is compromised, and must immediately find a way to sneak back into Germany unnoticed. A childhood friend introduces him to Lena, a fellow expat and Socialist, and they hatch a plan to have Oskar pose as her husband as they cross the Atlantic on a cruise ship filled with Nazis and fellow travelers. But bad luck follows them at every turn, and they find themselves messily entangled with the son of a U.S. Senator, a White Russian princess, a disgraced journalist, an aging brigadier, and a gay SS officer as the novel races toward an explosive conclusion"--
