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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
July 2011
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Featuring: Thomas Danforth
368 pages
ISBN: 0547364644
EAN: 9780547364643
Hardcover
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Thomas Danforth has lived a fortunate life. The son of a
wealthy importer, he traveled the world in his youth, and
now, in his twenties, he lives in New York City and runs the
family business. It is 1939, and the world is on the brink
of war, but Danforth’s life is untroubled, his future assured. Then, on a snowy evening walk along Gramercy Park, a friend
poses a fateful question. As it turns out, this friend has a
dangerous idea that can change the world. Danforth is to
provide a place where a “brilliant woman” can receive
training in firearms and explosives. This is to be the
beginning of an international plot carried out by the
mysterious Anna Klein—a plot that will ensnare Danforth in
more ways than one. When the plan goes wrong and Klein
disappears, Danforth’s quest begins: it is a journey of
ever-shifting alliances and betrayals that will lead him
across a war-torn world in search of answers. Now in his ninety-first year, at the dawn of a troubled new
era, he sits in luxury at the Century Club and tells his
tale to the young man from Washington he has summoned, for
reasons of his own, to hear it.
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