Warburg in Rome - Hardcover

Carroll, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547738900 ISBN 13: 9780547738901

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

Synopsis

David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war’s end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d’Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg’s guide to a complicated Rome; while a charismatic young American Catholic priest, Monsignor Kevin Deane, seems equally committed to aiding Italian Jews. But the city is a labyrinth of desperate fugitives, runaway Nazis, Jewish resisters, and criminal Church figures. Marguerite, caught between justice and revenge, is forced to play a double game. At the center of the maze, Warburg discovers one of history’s great scandals—the Vatican ratline, a clandestine escape route maintained by Church officials and providing scores of Nazi war criminals with secret passage to Argentina. Warburg’s disillusionment is complete when, turning to American intelligence officials, he learns that the dark secret is not so secret, and that even those he trusts may betray him.

James Carroll delivers an authoritative, stirring novel that reckons powerfully with the postwar complexities of good and evil in the Eternal City.

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From the Inside Flap:

From the best-selling author of Constantine’s Sword, a powerfully imagined novel that mines the dark and little-known history of postwar Rome, the Vatican, and Italy’s surviving Jews

David Warburg, a newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war’s end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d’Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg’s guide to a complicated Rome, while a charismatic young American Catholic priest, Monsignor Kevin Deane, seems equally committed to aiding Italian Jews. But the city is a labyrinth of desperate fugitives, runaway Nazis, Jewish resisters, and criminal Church figures. Marguerite, caught between justice and revenge, is forced to play a double game. At the center of the maze, Warburg discovers one of history’s greatest scandals—the Vatican ratline providing scores of Nazi war criminals with secret passage to Argentina. Warburg’s disillusionment is com-plete when, turning to American intelligence officials, he learns that the dark secret is not so secret, and that even those he trusts may betray him.

James Carroll delivers an authoritative, stirring novel that reckons powerfully with the postwar complexities of good and evil in the Eternal City.

From the Back Cover:

“James Carroll has written a novel with the breathtaking pace of a thriller and the gravitas of a genuine moral center—as if John le Carré and Graham Greene collaborated to produce Warburg in Rome.” — Mary Gordon, author of Pearl and The Love of My Youth

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0547738900
• ISBN 13: 9780547738901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384