The One Man
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Publisher Description
A career-defining book from no. 1 bestselling author, Andrew Gross, The One Man journeys from the darkest days of humanity to the heart of the US secret service.
"Real fear, real thrills, real suspense . . . real good" Lee Child
Auschwitz, 1944. Alfred Mendl's days are numbered. But he has little left to live for - his family were torn away from him, his life's work burned in front of his eyes - until a glimmer of hope arises as he watches a game of chess. To the guards Mendl is just another prisoner, but in fact he holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. The other is working hard for the Nazi war machine.
Four thousand miles away, in Washington DC, intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum decodes messages from occupied Poland. After the Nazis murdered his family, Nathan escaped the Krakow ghetto and is determined to support his new country - and the US government knows exactly how he can. They want to send Nathan on a mission to rescue one man from a place no one can break in to - or out of.
Even if Nathan does make it in and finds him, can they escape the most heavily guarded place on earth?
MORE PRAISE FOR THE ONE MAN
"One of the most compelling thrillers I've read in a long, long while. Gripping, chilling and charged with emotion." Peter James
"Riveting and horrifying - a grab-you-by-the-throat thriller, impossible to put down." Jessie Keane
"Gross knows how to deliver a thrill" Daily Mail
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This dramatic thriller unfolds against the backdrop of World War II, switching between the story of a Polish physicist languishing in Auschwitz and the American government operatives desperate to rescue him and use his knowledge against the Germans. Andrew Gross clearly feels strongly about the story and his characters, daring to dig deep into shattering emotions and displaying an impressive grasp of historical fact.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Gross (Everything to Lose) revisits the horrors of Auschwitz in this harrowing, thematically rich thriller, which marks a significant departure from his previous contemporary suspense novels. In the spring of 1944, both the Germans and the Allies are pressing toward the transmutation of uranium into atomic weaponry that could win WWII. Gross postulates that the U.S. Manhattan Project, headed by Robert Oppenheimer and joined by renowned refugee physicists like Denmark's Niels Bohr, lacked one vital component but the Nazis have incarcerated the world expert in that area, Dr. Alfred Mendl, in Auschwitz. William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the head of the OSS, backs a near-suicidal plan to send a desk-bound Jewish intelligence officer, Nathan Blum, who escaped from Nazi-overrun Poland, into Auschwitz to rescue Mendl. Alternating between scenes of American hope-against-hope optimism and Nazi brutality, Blum's deadly odyssey into and out of this 20th-century hell drives toward a compelling celebration of the human will to survive, remember, and overcome.
