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The fifth column
- Title
- The fifth column / Andrew Gross.
- Author
- Gross, Andrew, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-10123 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 325 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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. America is wrestling with whether to enter the growing war. Charles's estranged wife and six-year-old daughter, Emma, now live in a quiet brownstone in the German-speaking New York City neighborhood of Yorkville, where support for Hitler is common. 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. As the threat of war grows, and fears of a "fifth column"--German spies embedded into everyday life--are everywhere, Charles puts together that the seemingly amiable Bauers may be part of a sinister conspiracy. When Pearl Harbor is attacked and America can no longer sit on the sideline, that conspiracy turns into a deadly threat with Charles the only one who can see it and Emma, an innocent pawn.
- Alternative Title
- 5th column
- Subjects
- Conspiracies
- Ex-convicts > Fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- Conspiracies > Fiction
- Hate groups > United States > Fiction
- FICTION / Historical / World War II
- 1939-1945
- New York (State) > New York
- New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Fiction
- Spy fiction
- FICTION / Thrillers / Historical
- World War (1939-1945)
- Historical fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Spy fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Action and adventure fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10123
- ISBN
- 9781250180001
- 1250180007
- 9781250266620
- 1250266629
- 9781250180018 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019018208
- OCLC
- 1098217405
- Author
- Gross, Andrew, 1952- author.
- Title
- The fifth column / Andrew Gross.
- Publisher
- New York : Minotaur Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10123