The Odessa File
In a very good condition.
Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket with original £2.00 net price. "First published 1972" alone on the copyright page, no later impression stated.
Laid in loosely is a Christmas card dated 31st November 1972, given to mark a retirement and a birthday. The rear endpapers carry several pages of contemporary pencil notes cross-referencing the novel against the real historical figures behind it.
Dustacket rubbed and creased along the top edge with small chips and nicks to the head of the front panel and spine crown, light soiling to the rear panel, unclipped and complete. Boards sound, spine ends lightly bumped, binding tight. Previous owner's signature in ink to front endpaper. Pencil notes confined to rear endpapers, no other marks in the text.
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Can you forgive the past?
It’s 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward: this is a tragic insight into one man’s suffering. But a long-hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man’s diary.
What follows is a life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander, a man responsible for the deaths of thousands, a man as yet unpunished.