Passion of Shadows

A foreign correspondent encounters four intriguing women during World War II. In Paris in 1940 he and another American, a concert violinist, have an affair. The fall of France is background to their volatile relationship. That autumn his news agency transfers him to Berlin, where the sputtering affair will reignite. His boss, the only woman head of a press bureau, has him help her gather data on the secret Nazi euthanasia program. That takes him to an estate in East Prussia, where two sisters provide him with coded information. They are members of a distinguished Junker family that will not survive the war. In a couple of visits the correspondent learns about the family from servants and from manuscripts left by two dead men. By now his boss has been expelled for spying, the United States has entered the war and the violinist is playing for the enemy. To avoid internment he escapes to Switzerland. He works in Berne, exchanging letters with the sisters. They are involved with anti-Nazi plotters. In January 1945, the correspondent returns to help one of the sisters escape from the Soviet Army. They become part of the chaotic flight west of German refugees that final winter. Back in Paris after the war he thinks he has seen the last of these intriguing women. He's wrong.
ASIN: 0995267103
VSKU: BVV.0995267103.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:French, Robert
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use