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The Darkroom of Damocles

A Novel

Willem Frederik Hermans
4
(2)
Pages
400
Year
2009
Language
English

About

During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a mysterious man named Dorbeck-a man who bears a strangely striking resemblance to Osewoudt himself. Dorbeck recruits him to perform simple, but top-secret missions on orders from London. But as the assignments keep coming, they get increasingly dangerous. Soon Osewoudt is being asked to commit murder in the name of Gestapo resistance.

After the war, Osewoudt is taken for a traitor and captured. To prove his sacrifices for the Resistance, he must find the untraceable doppelgänger in an existential thriller.

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"I plunged into this novel intimidated at first by its length, then astonished to find myself unable to put it down. For this is a thriller, a long chain of events during which the suspense never flags."
Milan Kundera

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