The fifth column
February 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, Charlie takes a swing at one with tragic results and a torrent of unintended consequences follows. Two years later, Charles's estranged wife and six-year-old daughter, Emma, now live in a quiet brownstone in a German-speaking New York City neighborhood, where support for Hitler is open. Charles, just out of prison, struggles to put his life back together, while across the hall from his family, a kindly Swiss couple, Trudi and Willi Bauer, have taken a liking to Emma. But Charles begins to suspect that they might not be who they say they are.
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- ISBN: 9781250240859
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8 audio discs (approximately 8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, [2019]
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General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. GMD: sound recording. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Edoardo Ballerini. |