The Darkroom of Damocles

The Darkroom of Damocles
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Publisher : ABRAMS
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781468303995
ISBN-13 : 1468303996
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Book Synopsis The Darkroom of Damocles by : Willem Frederik Hermans

Download or read book The Darkroom of Damocles written by Willem Frederik Hermans and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the acclaimed Dutch author of Beyond Sleep: a thriller set in Nazi occupied Holland: “fast-moving, frighteningly real yet verging on the incredible” (Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being). During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a mysterious man named Dorbeck—a man who bears a strangely striking resemblance to Osewoudt himself. Dorbeck recruits him to perform simple, but top-secret missions on orders from London. But as the assignments keep coming, they get increasingly dangerous. Soon Osewoudt is being asked to commit murder in the name of Gestapo resistance. After the war, Osewoudt is taken for a traitor and captured. To prove his sacrifices for the Resistance, he must find the untraceable doppelgänger in an existential thriller “crackling with tension . . . bringing to mind Camus and the Sartre of Les Chemins de la Liberté” (The Telegraph). “Striking, suspenseful . . . Brilliant.” —The Observer


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