The day of the lie : a Father Anselm thriller / William Brodrick.
Material type:
TextSeries: The Father Anselm novels ; 4Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2017Description: 378 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781468311167
- 1468311166
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Mystery | Brodrick William | FA 4 | Available | 33111008743441 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Featuring the brilliant criminal lawyer-turned-monk/ detective whose specialty is the intersection of murderous deeds and moral questions and "reminiscent of the early works of John le Carré . . . blending sharp suspense and literary resonance," William Brodrick's Father Anselm novels are "classics in the making" (Jeffrey Deaver).In The Day of the Lie, Father Anselm receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell--the story of a revolutionary in Eastern Europe during the icy grip of the Cold War.As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. Betrayed by someone close to her--someone still unknown--she was sent to the dark of a government prison and forced to make a terrible choice that would haunt her to this day.Now, decades later, Father Anselm peels back years of history, decades of secrets, a half-century of lies, in order to expose a truth that victim and torturer would keep hidden. A perceptive examination of guilt and redemption, The Day of the Lie is a gripping, intricate mystery.
Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2012.
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.