TY - BOOK AU - Brodrick,William TI - The day of the lie: a Father Anselm thriller T2 - The Father Anselm novels SN - 9781468311167 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Overlook Press KW - Anselm, KW - Monks KW - Fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2012 N2 - They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her ... someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. But after her arrest, a Stasi officer makes her a devil's bargain - and in the dark of a government prison, a terrible choice is made. Now, fifty years later, Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story and a mystery dating back to the early 1980s, in the icy grip of the Cold War. And as he peels back years of history, decades of secrets, a half-century of lies, he exposes a truth that an entire generation was killed to keep hidden ER -