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Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B38126

English Summary/英文概要： A compelling, finely-crafted, intelligent thriller set in the Second World War.

It is 1940, and war is raging in Europe. With forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure within America to stay out of the fight. Elements ranging from the Nazi-sympathetic German-American Bund to the WASP-led America First movement are working feverishly to make sure America does not intervene on the side of a beleaguered Great Britain.

Stephen Nessheim, a 28-year-old German-American Lutheran, is working for the still-fledgling FBI. Having grown up in a small Wisconsin town, Nessheim has attended the University of Chicago already known for its radical theories of education and Leftist sympathies. But Nessheim is conservative, befitting his small town upbringing as the son of a schoolteacher, and plays American football in college. Dealing with his own conflicts and that of his divided community, Nessheim finds himself assigned to infiltrate the Bund to seek out suspected Nazi-extremists. His investigations take him deep into the heart of Roosevelt’s government. But as he moves closer to the truth, another even more sinister plot emerges which threatens the very foundations of American democracy.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事發生在二戰時期。
1940年，歐洲戰爭肆虐，到處硝煙彌漫，德國人口超過四千萬之眾，面對如此泱泱的人頭，美國選擇避而遠之，拒絕參戰。部分對納粹持有綏靖態度的德裔美國人，他們創立基金，並在WASP引導下，於美國國內轟轟烈烈地開展民間活動，旨在阻止美國加入同盟國之列，從而對德宣戰。
28歲的的德裔美國青年Nessheim服務于尚在起步階段在FBI,他生長在威斯康辛州的一座小鎮中。儘管在芝加哥大學求學期間被灌輸了各種教育和左派理論，但作為一名牧師的兒子，他仍是一名安分守紀的年輕人，過著普通安穩的生活。然而有一天，Nessheim被派潛入基金會，設法揪出隱藏的納粹極端分子。隨著調查的深入，他逐漸滲入羅斯福政府內部，無意間發現一場更大的危機正漸漸浮出水面……(RH)

Awards/获奖情况："This top-notch historical thriller from Rosenheim (Stillriver), the first in a new series, introduces 26-year-old Jimmy Nessheim, an FBI agent in the Chicago field office. In 1937, a jealous J. Edgar Hoover is looking to rid the Chicago office of staff members “tainted” by their connection with real-life G-man Melvin Purvis, who led the manhunts that tracked down Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and John Dillinger. Fortunately, FBI assistant director Harry Guttman rescues Nessheim’s career by tapping him to go undercover in the Chicago German-American community. In doing so, Guttman directly contravenes Hoover’s opposition to such covert work, but the resourceful Nessheim believes his mission has the director’s blessing. With Nazi Germany eager to keep the U.S. out of the impending European war, the stakes are high. While Rosenheim’s prose and character portraits may not match those of Alan Furst at his best, this intelligent page-turner will only whet reader’s appetites for more." - starred PW review

About the Author/作者介绍： 安德魯•羅森海姆（Andrew Rosenheim），1977年以領羅氏獎學金的研究生身份從美國來到英國，他的住所就在牛津大學附近。1999年十月，他在從牛津出發去赴任工作的途中，他所乘坐的火車與帕丁頓外的一輛火車相撞，安德魯就坐在大西部火車的第一節車廂。對於他來說，這是一個轉變人生的經歷，他決定離開他的高層地位，並開始全職寫作。他的小說《WITHOUT PREJUDICE》就是很好的證明。
Andrew Rosenheim came to England from America as a Rhodes Scholar in 1977 and has lived near Oxford ever since. He is the author of Stillriver (published by Hutchinson in 2004). He is married and has twin daughters.

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