V.I. Warshawski #10
Dell
November 2002
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Featuring: V.I. Warshawski
544 pages ISBN: 0440224713 EAN: 9780440224716 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers
and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. “V.I.
Warshawski rules,” writes Newsweek, crowning her “the
most engaging woman in detective fiction.” Of V.I.’s
creator, the Chicago Tribune says “Sara Paretsky has
no peer.”
Now Paretsky brings her incomparable
storytelling brilliance to her most powerful Warshawski
novel yet. Total Recall follows the Chicago P.I. on a
road that winds back more than fifty years — and into an
intricate maze of wartime lies, heartbreaking secrets, and
harrowing retribution.
For V.I., the journey begins
with a national conference in downtown Chicago, where angry
protesters are calling for the recovery of Holocaust assets.
Replayed on the evening news is the scene of a slight man
who has stood up at the conference to tell an astonishing
story of a childhood shattered by the Holocaust — a story
that has devastating consequences for V.I.’s cherished
friend and mentor, Lotty Herschel.
Lotty was a girl
of nine when she emigrated from Austria to England, one of a
group of children wrenched from their parents and saved from
the Nazi terror just before the war broke out. Now
stunningly — impossibly — it appears that someone from that
long-lost past may have returned.
With the help of a
recovered-memory therapist, Paul Radbuka has recently
learned his true identity. But is he who he claims to be? Or
is he a cunning impostor who has usurped someone else’s
history ... a history Lotty has tried to forget for over
fifty years?
As a frightened V.I. watches her friend
unravel, she sets out to help in the only way she can: by
investigating Radbuka’s past. Already working on a difficult
case for a poor family cheated of their life insurance, she
tries to balance Lotty’s needs with her client’s, only to
find that both are spiraling into a whirlpool of
international crime that stretches from Switzerland and
Germany to Chicago’s South Side.
As the atrocities
of the past reach out to engulf the living, V.I. struggles
to decide whose memories of a terrible war she can trust,
and moves closer to a chilling realization of the truth — a
truth that almost destroys her oldest friend.
With
fierce emotional power, Sara Paretsky has woven a gripping
and morally complex novel of crime and punishment, memory
and illusion. Destined to become a suspense classic,
Total Recall proves once again the daring and
compelling genius of Sara Paretsky.
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