Overview
Europe, 1940: Posing as a friar, a British operative talks his way into a Belgian monastery just before Nazi art thieves plan to whisk everything of value back to Berlin. But the ersatz man of the cloth is no thief. Instead, that night he adds an old leather Bible to the monasteryās library and then escapes.
London, 2017: A construction worker discovers a skeletal arm-bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist, all that remains of a courier who died in a V-2 rocket attack. The woman who will put these two disparate events togetherāand understand the looming tragedy she must hurry to preventāis Russian historian and former Soviet chess champion Larissa Mendelovg Klimt, āLara the Bookworm,ā to her friends. Sheās also experiencing some woeful marital troubles.
Lara will learn the significance of six musty Dictaphone cylinders recorded after D-Day by Noel Cowardāsecretly, a British agent reporting directly to Winston Churchillāand understand precisely why that leather Bible played such a pivotal role in turning Hitler's guns to the East. And she will discover the new secret pact negotiated by the nefarious Russian president and his newly elected American counterpartāmaverick and dealmakerāand the evil it portends.
Oh, and sheāll reconcile with her husband.
This book title, The Bookworm (A Novel), ISBN: 9781681776415, by Mitch Silver, published by Pegasus Books (February 6, 2018) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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