The Human Pool

Scribner, London, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. 410 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Scribner, London, 2002. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has minor bumping to edges. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: An epic thriller, spanning six decades and three continents, tracing a history of secret deals dating back to WWII. In the war, Willi Schmidt was a Swiss shoesalesman with a desire to get involved. He dealt blackmarket leather for Nazi boots and information for US intelligence. When Joe Hoover saw him fall into a freezing river in 1945, no-one asked any questions. Almost sixty years later, Hoover receives a call and a package. The call is from an old SS contact convinced Willi is alive. The package is from someone who wants to scare him. Falling in with a journalist investigating contemporary Neo-Nazis, Hoover is drawn back into the past - to his days as a bagman for corrupt American spymaster Alan Dulles, drinking and dealing with Nazi officers in the supposedly neutral cities of Zurich, Istanbul, and Budapest. At each step, he finds the shadow of Willi Schmidt and the spectre WWII's most grotesque and enduring legacy - a trade in people. Chris Petit's masterly new thriller unpicks history to show what really goes on in its darkest corners. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0743209443. ISBN/EAN: 9780743209441. Inventory No: 11030296.. 9780743209441