Quest for Anna Klein - Hardcover

Thomas H. Cook

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857892592 ISBN 13: 9780857892591

Publisher: Atlantic, 2011

Synopsis

In 1939, Thomas Jefferson Danforth, a privileged man in his twenties, became embroiled in a plot that could have changed the world - a plot to kill Hitler. Now, in his ninety-first year, at the dawn of a troubled new era, he sits in the luxury of New York's Century Club and tells his tale to the young man from Washington he has summoned, for reasons of his own, to hear it. Danforth travelled to Europe to provide cover for a mysterious female assassin, Anna Klein, who posed as his secretary. Fuelled by the enigma of her origins, Danforth fell deeply and obsessively in love. Was she, as she claimed, an Armenian orphaned by the Turkish genocide of 1915? Which of the roles she played represents the real Anna Klein? The assassination was to take place at a Munich restaurant, but Hitler left early, and the conspirators were arrested by the Gestapo. To his surprise, Danforth was released, but of Anna there was no word. The plotters were betrayed - but why, and by whom? Was it possible that Anna herself could have been the traitor? These are the questions that shape Danforth's life and quest in the decades that follow. It is a journey of ever-shifting alliances and betrayals that will lead him across a war-torn world, from the ruins of Berlin to the Road of Skulls in Stalin's gulag archipelago, from a hovel in the Ukraine to the Caspian port of Baku, in search of the answers that will piece together the real story of Anna Klein.

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HMH HardcoverPrevious ISBN 978-0-547-36464-3

From the Back Cover

On the eve of World War II, a high-stakes international plot leads to a deadly obsession ...

 

“Cook ... has been one of our finest writers for years.”—Associated Press 

 

"Cook writes piercing thrillers . . ."—New York Daily News

 

"No other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Thomas H. Cook."—Chicago Tribune

 

"One of the most suspenseful of crime-fiction writers, [Cook] is also one of the most lyrical ..."—Cleveland Plain Dealer

 

"Cook writes powerful, layered novels with original heroes who choose to walk down paths that quietly, inexorably, lead them to even darker places in the human heart, and ultimately to breathtaking and revelatory surprises at their journey's end."—Minneapolis Star Tribune

 

  

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Atlantic
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857892592
• ISBN 13: 9780857892591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352