Description
Product ID: | 9780857304377 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Cesare |
Authors: | Author: Jerome Charyn |
Page Count: | 352 |
Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
Description: | Select Guide Rating On a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him 'Cesare'... 1937. A 17 year old German naval sub-cadet stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him ''Cesare''. Canaris is a man of contradictions who, while serving the regime, seeks to undermine the Nazis and helps Cesare hide Berlin''s Jews. But the Nazis will lure many to Theresienstadt, a phony paradise in Czechoslovakia with sham restaurants, novelty shops, a cruel ghetto and way station to Auschwitz. When the woman Cesare loves is sent there, he must find a way to rescue her. |
Imprint Name: | No Exit Press |
Publisher Name: | Bedford Square Publishers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-11-19 |