The Day Before Sunrise: A Novel - Hardcover

WISEMAN, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030152062 ISBN 13: 9780030152061

Publisher: Holt, 1976

Synopsis

Reich Special Investigator Ernst Schöller contrives his escape from embattled Berlin with his unparalleled knowledge of the highest in the land. There is nothing, and no-one, of importance in the dritte Reich he doesn't know about. Using his position and knowledge, he begins to bargain for his life with the Allies in the person of Allen Welsh Dulles, chief of the O.S.S. in Switzerland. Realising that a delayed surrender by Germany will mean deeper penetration into Europe by the Communists, both men agree that Schöller should be supervised in his intelligence gathering, but the only agent available is a young American clerk, Elliott, who has no field training. A strange relationship forms between the two men in the environment of mutual self-interest; as horrors unimaginable blunt the sensitivities of the young American he begins to learn the trade-crafts of deception and survival in the shadowy world of espionage. Thomas Wiseman has written a novel-of-fact, an accurate reconstruction of actual events;

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0030152062
• ISBN 13: 9780030152061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347