Flight from Berlin : a novel
(2012)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/JOHN,D

Availability

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Harper, [2012]
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

372 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780062091567 (hardcover), 0062091565 (hardcover), 9780062091598 (trade pbk.), 006209159X (trade pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"August 1936: The eyes of the world are on Berlin, where Adolf Hitler is using the Olympic Games to showcase his powerful new regime. Cynical British journalist Richard Denham knows that the carefully staged spectacle masks the Nazis' ruthless brutality, and he's determined to report the truth. Sparks fly when the seasoned newspaperman meets the beautiful and rebellious American socialite Eleanor Emerson. A superb athlete whose brash behavior got her expelled from the U.S. Olympic swim team, Eleanor is now covering the games as a celebrity columnist for newspapers in the States. While Berlin welcomes the world, the Nazi capital becomes a terrifying place for Richard and Eleanor. Their chance encounter at a reception thrown by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels leads them into the center of a treacherous game involving the Gestapo and the British Secret Intelligence Service. At stake: a mysterious dossier that threatens to destroy the leadership of the Third Reich. Drawn together by danger and passion, surrounded by enemies, Richard and Eleanor must pull off a daring plan to survive. But one wrong move could be their last."--Dust jacket