The Statement (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The hunt is on for an elusive Nazi war criminal in this "absorbing intellectual thriller that keeps you guessing . . . until the final page" (The New York Times).
For four decades Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS...
For four decades Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS...
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The hunt is on for an elusive Nazi war criminal in this "absorbing intellectual thriller that keeps you guessing . . . until the final page" (The New York Times).
For four decades Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS officers in history. Condemned to death in absentia he's tenuously protected by an intricate web of Nazi collaborators and an extreme right-wing faction of the Catholic Church. With nothing more than a suitcase and a prayer, Brossard seeks refuge in a monastery outside Salon-de-Provence. He knows the Committee for Justice is closing in. With every reason to fear his days are numbered, he realizes only one man can help him get away with murder: Commissaire Vionnet, a retired police chief who, forty years earlier, allowed Brossard to escape.
But two other men are collaborating as well: a hired assassin known only as T, and Cardinal Primate Delavigne, reformist of the postwar church. He's as unstoppable as T, as ruthless as Brossard, and he can't wait to play this game to its unpredictable end.
"An exciting, classic novel of hunter and hunted" inspired by a true story, The Statement was made into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, and Alan Bates (The Washington Post).
For four decades Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS officers in history. Condemned to death in absentia he's tenuously protected by an intricate web of Nazi collaborators and an extreme right-wing faction of the Catholic Church. With nothing more than a suitcase and a prayer, Brossard seeks refuge in a monastery outside Salon-de-Provence. He knows the Committee for Justice is closing in. With every reason to fear his days are numbered, he realizes only one man can help him get away with murder: Commissaire Vionnet, a retired police chief who, forty years earlier, allowed Brossard to escape.
But two other men are collaborating as well: a hired assassin known only as T, and Cardinal Primate Delavigne, reformist of the postwar church. He's as unstoppable as T, as ruthless as Brossard, and he can't wait to play this game to its unpredictable end.
"An exciting, classic novel of hunter and hunted" inspired by a true story, The Statement was made into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, and Alan Bates (The Washington Post).
Autoren-Porträt von Brian Moore
Brian Moore (1921-1999) was born in Ireland and lived most of his adult life in Canada and the United States. He was the author of many novels, including The Colour of Blood, Lies of Silence, and The Doctor's Wife-all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize-as well as Catholics, The Statement, I Am Mary Dunne, and The Magician's Wife. The Luck of Ginger Coffey was awarded Canada's most prestigious book prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Brian Moore
- 2018, 217 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504050320
- ISBN-13: 9781504050326
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.04.2018
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“A clever thriller . . . The ending of The Statement is a surprising shock.” —The New York Times“A vivid portrait of modern France and a story that illuminates troubling questions about faith, collaboration, evil and mercy . . . The Statement poses the questions and ponders the issues, but in a plot as fast and unpredictable as a getaway car.” —Los Angeles Times
“An engrossing and disturbing tale of conspiracy with several chilling surprises.” —The New Yorker
“A breakneck, twisting roller coaster. At every turn there is the dizzying, terrifying sensation that history itself may be running off the tracks.” —Chicago Tribune
“An absorbing thriller . . . A real page turner in which no person or organization is above suspicion, and nothing is as it first seems.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Action and movement on every page . . . Fast-paced suspense played out against a background of deep political and religious duplicity.” —Rocky Mountain News
“A thriller of ideas . . . Once more, Brian Moore puts his elegant plainsong prose to work in a narrative that never flags.” —The Miami Herald
“Lean and purposeful, a finely crafted, expertly rendered thriller . . . A complex moral fable of a kind found in novels by Graham Greene and John le Carré.” —The Detroit News and Free Press
“A thriller in which crises of conscience are as tense as the escalating manhunt.” —The Guardian
“One of [Moore’s] best—a gripping moral thriller . . .Tautly written and steeped in atmosphere.” —The Independent
“A thriller with a difference. The plot is as taught as the prose is tight—both qualities reminiscent of Graham
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Greene.” —Sunday Express
“A masterful puzzle of spiritual and historical dimensions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A masterful puzzle of spiritual and historical dimensions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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