The Day of the Lie (Father Anselm Novels) - Softcover

Brodrick, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349122660 ISBN 13: 9780349122663

Publisher: Abacus, 2013

Synopsis

They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison.

Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her . . . someone still unknown.

As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. But after her arrest, an agent of the secret police makes her a devil's bargain - and in the dark of a government prison, a terrible choice is made.

Now, fifty years later, Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story and a mystery dating back to the early 1980s, in the icy grip of the Cold War. And as he peels back years of history, decades of secrets, a half-century of lies, he exposes a truth that victim and torturer would keep hidden...

About this title

Review:

'... read with sensitive, world-weary intelligence by Gordon Griffin' --The Independent

'Brodrick's exploratory novels are refreshing and restorative, his style is thoughtful and precise; his integrity powerful. You feel better for having read them' --Spectator

Book Description:

The haunting, utterly magnificent new novel from the bestselling author of The Sixth Lamentation (a Richard & Judy selection) and A Whispered Name (winner of the CWA Gold Dagger).

About this edition

• Publisher: Abacus
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0349122660
• ISBN 13: 9780349122663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384