David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war's end determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews. Soon, he discovers one of history's great scandals: the Vatican ratline, a clandestine escape route maintained by Church officials providing Nazi war criminals with secret passage to Argentina. Warburg's disappointment is complete when, turning to American officials, he learns that it is no secret, and that even those he trusts may betray him.
"James Carroll has written a novel with the breathtaking pace of a thriller and the gravitas of a genuine moral center - as if John LeCarre and Graham Greene collaborated to produce Warburg in Rome."
Mary Gordon author of Pearl and The Love of My Youth
